A review by ovvlish
Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness, and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World by David King

3.0

An interesting read about a person I'd genuinely never heard of. The overall impression the book made on me was fairly weak, with some slightly infantile "and wasn't that cool? we should definitely talk more about cool dudes like this in the past" types of statements scattered throughout. I also am biased against noncritical summaries of figures who today would be labeled conspiracy theorists, especially ones that are quite proto-volkisch; there was no conversation about the ways in which thinkers in the early modern and modern periods who searched for proof that their ancestors were secretly the origin of all human civilization. Not every book has to have this, hence a 3 stars rather than a 2.