Product Description

This controversial book claims that flying saucers not only exist, but that they are the vehicles of a super-race that lives in a huge, underground world whose entrance is in the earth's North Pole.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #497687 in Books
• Published on: 1996-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

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• ISBN13: 9780787300975
• Condition: USED - ACCEPTABLE
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Customer Reviews

Raymond Bernard's "The Hollow Earth" is a classic...
"The Hollow Earth", Raymond Bernard - the classic and fully distributed - published first in the 1960's - is in every geology section of your neighborhood or university library. Does God have a great sense of humor or what? If you want to have a great introduction to the Hollow Earth that hits the high spots of this controversial subject - read this book.

The Hollow Earth
An absolutely fascinating read. The author uses many scientific anomolies to support his views. If he is correct in his beliefs of an entire civilization inside the earth, then all of the human race has been bamboozled by the scientific and government communities on a global scale.

An absolute non-believer in most,(if not all) conspiracy theories, I believe then, that there is a possibility of the veracity of his views, if not the probability. At any rate, a mentally exhilirating read!

Do you like repetition? Do you like repetition? Do you...
I can't say for certain that the author of this book was a complete crank. But if he wasn't, he certainly went to a lot of effort to make it look that way. His preferred method of arguing his thesis is insistent, hectoring repetition. From the writing style, one can imagine that a face-to-face conversation with the author would probably have involved his standing too close, repeatedly jabbing you in the chest with his finger, and spraying saliva. He quotes other writings, and interjects his own repetitive assertions into the quoted passages. At one point he describes the migrations of arctic wildlife for two pages, then reveals that he got those details from another writer--"who says--" and he repeats the whole two pages, word for word. The book is so badly written it's hard to focus on what information or argument it does contain.

Part of an early chapter discusses a 1908 novel -- "The Smoky God" by W.G. Emerson, a story of a Norwegian fisherman's adventure to and through the hollow earth -- as if it were a unique book, and most likely based on secret knowledge. A more recent book, "Hollow Earth" by David Standish, puts "The Smoky God" in a different perspective; from around 1880 to 1910, hollow-earth adventure-fantasy novels were practically a genre, with dozens of books appearing (most of them pretty unreadable by today's fiction standards).

Standish's book, which is mainly a survey of literature incorporating the hollow-earth motif, has a little to say about Bernard and this book. "Raymond Bernard" was apparently (Standish doesn't say in detail where he got his information) a pseudonym or alias of one Walter Siegmeister, an esotericist involved in a whole range of exotic subjects, including "breatharianism" (getting one's 'food' from the energy in air), who got into hassles with the FDA and other government branches, and eventually left the U.S. for other parts, where he wrote "The Hollow Earth" in the early 60's. And where, regrettably, he had no editor to clean the thing up a bit...