According to most histories of Maryland; in 1645-46 Richard Ingle and his ship Reformation terrorized the tiny settlements on the Chesapeake Bay; bringing the violence and mayhem of the English Civil War to the New World. But did he? In this thoroughly researched and well-told tale of deception; greed; and political intrigue; St.Mary’s City archaeologist Timothy B. Riordan unearths new evidence — from muddy “Pope’s Fort†in St. Mary’s to the Admiralty Court records in London — to show that revolution was brewing in Maryland with or without the colorful; sometimes roguish Ingle and his crew.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating Stories of Forgotten CivilizationsBy PastAgesandFutureWorldsOne might have some intrepidation about a book with "Atlantis" on the cover or flourish like "the place where civilization really began." However; there is a lot of interesting material in this reprint of the 1947 book. Global cataclysms affecting mankind is now again a popular topic (The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture); and Wilkins mines legends for hints of past events. He does make assumptions in connecting many things with Atlantis; hypothesizing that the survivors came to Central and South America. Were they from the fabled Atlantis; other voyagers or both? See also In Search of Quetzalcoatl: The Mysterious Heritage of American Civilization.He dates the Atlantis destruction at the end of the last Ice Age; more or less; as many do. Indeed; there seems to be a cosmic impact event then; but others have questioned if it makes sense for an advanced people to exist during the Stone Age and place them during the Bronze Age and destroyed in a different event (see The Lost Empire of Atlantis). Wilkins can be loose and speculative with his datings; but his suggestion of earlier arrival in the Americas has since been vindicated (The Settlement of the Americas: A New Prehistory).The background on the lost explorer Fawcett and his quest for lost cities in the is interesting and has been reintroduced to modern audiences recently in The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the . One wonders in the age of satellites if any lost cities could still exist; but occasionally they are still found. Sometimes Wilkins relies on too many lost; unpublished or otherwise hard if not impossible to find manuscripts. Where are they now? The fascinating discussion of underground worlds is sometimes marred by relying on the musings of mystics. And where is the biblography that the contents claims should be in the back of the book? The stories of giants are another forgotten but possibly truth-based race from past times. Overall; Wilkins has gathered together tidbits and rumors of a long-lost time.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Some great informationBy Thomas K. CarberryThis book contains many fascinating facts. The author engages in a lot of speculation about how things occurred; but he obviously put a tremendous amount of time into this book.As a person interested in our extremely obscure past; I admire people like Harold T. Wilkens who devoted their lives to trying to learn as much as they can. Many amateurs have made fantastic discoveries; based on their own interpretations of the historical and archaeological evidence.Just today I read of the discovery of a lost city in Honduras; from an unknown past civilization. (3/3/2015). The world holds tons of unknown structures and ruins; both on land and under water; but we spend most of our time in wars and other nasty pursuits than in trying to learn about our own past and how we got into our current situation.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. SpellbindingBy J. HolmesSpell binding.
