Atlantis and the Giants

The original 1957 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector's Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint.Atlantis and the Giants presents a systematic and provocative development of theories associated with the Hoerbigerian "glacial cosmology," previously advanced by H. S. Bellamy and Peter Allan. Denis Saurat accepts the hypothesis of successive satellites colliding with the Earth and the resulting global cataclysms, and applies it to problems of mythology, anthropology, and ancient history. He argues that such cosmic events may account not only for the origin of major myths-most notably Atlantis-but also for anomalous evidence of human gigantism and unusual longevity. Saurat examines whether altered gravitational conditions following a tertiary satellite could have shaped a primordial "Golden Age," during which humans lived alongside benevolent giants, later transformed in cultural memory into the ogres of legend. First published in France, the work attracted considerable attention and was praised by contemporaries such as Jean Cocteau for its imaginative scope and intellectual ambition; it remains a notable contribution to Hoerbigerian literature and an example of early twentieth-century speculative scholarship at the intersection of cosmology, myth, and anthropology.