David Gibbins - Atlantis

David Gibbins
Atlantis
Izdavač: Dell, 2006
Mekani uvez, 480str
Jezik: Engleski
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Stoljetna opčinjenost mitovima o Atlantidi nadahnula je bezbrojne potrage za tim veličanstvenim otokom na kojem su vladali društvena harmonija i neizmjerno bogatstvo, i koji je valjda zato onako nenadano i nepovratno potonuo na samom početku historije. No junak romana Atlaatida, podvodni arheolog Jack Howard i njegova istraživačka ekipa jednog će dana, roneći Mediteranom za olupinom iz homerskih vremena, naići na trag koj i bi mogao biti ključ pronalaska izgubljenog svijeta. I tako će se jedan znanstvenik, naoružan samo erudicijom, dati u potragu za otokom o kome se mašta već tisućama godina. I doista, Jack Howard doprijet će do ruba veličanstvenog otkrića, ali s tim otkrićem pojavit će se i neočekivano opasni neprijatelji. Jack Howard i njegovi suradnici nenadano bivaju uvučeni u okrutnu igru na život ili smrt, čije bi posljedice mogle uništiti mnoge živote. Jer ono što bi Jack mogao otkriti premašuje njegove najluđe snove koji imaju i svoju zastrašujuću cijenu...

Marine archeologist Jack Howard may have found the key to uncovering Atlantis, the legendary sunken city purportedly built by a flourishing culture. A scrap of papyrus discovered in an Egyptian desert, which may contain a secondhand account of the lost city, sends Jack scrambling to assemble a team, including Costas, an MIT- and Stanford-trained expert in "submersible technology" and Katya, a beautiful Russian Atlantis specialist. Once prepped and in position in the Aegean Sea, Jack and company find themselves caught up with Kazakhstan terrorists and a multicountry fight over a missing Soviet nuclear submarine—and that's before they've uncovered the ancient secrets of the lost city. It's thrilling stuff for sure, but the story limps along on complicated, exposition-heavy science that's doled out much too slowly (characters walk each other—often and at length—through their particular areas of expertise as the plot requires). Gibbons, an underwater archeologist and Cambridge University Ph.D., knows his science; still, things don't pick up until the second half of the story, when the dive gives way to a more straightforward kidnapping plot. The historical conspiracy angle gives the book Da Vinci-esque appeal, and the intense visual details of the team's marine discoveries make it naturally cinematic, but if history and science lectures aren't your cup of Dramamine, you might want to give this one a pass.

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