Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of man Churchward signed 1st Ed 1926 240424

by James Churchward, Col

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The Lost Continent of Mu Motherland of man Churchward signed 1st Ed 1926 240424 This book is dated 1926 with full title including "the Motherhood of Man" on title page - has inscription "Cordially Yours, Churchward" on 2nd flyleaf. Previous owner label inside front cover and imprint on title page. See pics for spine issues and where the binding is starting to loosen. Excerpts from Wikipedia: Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis. The name was subsequently identified with the hypothetical land of Lemuria by James Churchward (1851–1936), who asserted that it was located in the Pacific Ocean before its destruction. The place of Mu in both pseudoscience and fantasy fiction is discussed in detail in Lost Continents (1954, 1970) by L. Sprague de Camp. Churchward claimed that "more than fifty years ago", while he was a soldier in India, he befriended a high-ranking temple priest who showed him a set of ancient "sunburnt" clay tablets, supposedly in a long-lost "Naga-Maya language" which only two other people in India could read. Churchward convinced the priest to teach him the dead language and decipher the tablets by promising to restore and store the tablets, for Churchward was an expert in preserving ancient artifacts. The tablets were written in either Burma or in the lost continent of Mu itself, according to the high priest. Having mastered the language himself, Churchward found out that they origina

• Publisher: Wiliam Edwin Rudge
• Year: 1926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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