A Bit of Atlantis

About this book

A Scottish-Canadian inventor discovers that his ancestry may reach back to Atlantis. His search ends on an isolated island, where traces of the vanished civilisation have survived long enough to offer one last account of its destruction.

Douglas Erskine mixes shipwreck adventure with an earnest interest in the Atlantis theories popular around 1900. An extensive introduction considers Plato and the supposed geography of the lost continent before the fiction takes over. Maps and illustrations add an explorer's air to a story about finding a world just as it disappears.