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| | H-Net Review: Ian J. Barrow on The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories |
 | | More precisely, her book is not strictly a history of that lost land, but a history of how it has been imagined and mapped by a remarkable range of people, from nineteenth-century paleo-scientists, to late-nineteenth-century occultists, to American "New Age" believers, to twentieth-century British colonial officials, and Tamil nationalists. |
| | Sclater was puzzled by the distribution of lemurs around the Indian Ocean, noting that while there are a few species in both Africa and India, there are many more in Madagascar. |
| | Although now universally debunked by Western-trained scientists, Sclater's theory about the lost land of Lemuria, originally published as a short essay in a relatively unknown scientific journal, was to find a new existence in the imagination and history of a long list of academics, occultists, colonial geologists, and nationalists. |
| www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=156041137094185 (757 words) |
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