CHURCHWARD, James.

£2,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Lost Continent of Mu: The Motherland of Man. First edition, rare in the jacket, of the author's first work expounding his theories for the existence of a lost continent in the Pacific Ocean. Churchward believed that Mu was the site of the Garden of Eden, which flourished 50,000 years before the present day.Churchward's ideas appeared in multiple science fiction works, including in short stories by H. P. Lovecraft, and in Philip K. Dick's Confessions of a Crap Artist.

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