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Phantom Trail: Discovering Ancient America

Phantom Trail: Discovering Ancient America

Vickers, Michael

Paperback

Travel GeneralGeneral United StatesGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $22.95

ISBN10: 0595349315
ISBN13: 9780595349319
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Apr 27 2005
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Traveling cross continent, the author explores several prominent, and many virtually secret sites of American antiquity. All relate to civilizations and cultures which preceded the arrival of the European--some, by many 1000s of years.

While the focus is on the Great Valley of the Mississippi and the stupendous and mysterious Moundbuilders, the working context is modern America. And it is knowledgeable Americans whom the author encounters along the Trail who provide support and guidance.

In the latter part of the book, attention shifts to the startling land formations of the South-west--the Petrified Forest, Grand Canyon, the High Plains--which tell us much about the intensity of activity on the American continent many millions of years before man, a very new newcomer, was to make his first appearance.

Phantom Trail creates an alternative portrait of America. It explores deeper themes and reveals identifiable lines of continuity leading up from antiquity to the present day. It suggests that America is not a modern European invention. Indeed to the contrary, it contends that it is those relentless formative forces, the beat of those deep, primeval rhythms which--unrecognized or ignored, as they may currently be--give to America its essential meaning, its presence, and its form.

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