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- Subject: Hollow Earth Bibliography (plus Flat Earth too!)
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- The following is a short bibliography I put together doing my
- 'research' into the area of Hollow Earth theories. If anyone knows
- of any other books or articles on the subject, I'd love to hear
- about it.
-
- One note: the term "inverted earth" is one I came up with to describe
- the ideas held by Koresheans and others to describe their view of the
- earth. These people think the world is inside out, ie WE (and the rest
- of the universe) reside within a hollow sphere. I use this term so that
- these people can be separeted froum the Hollow Earth theorists. Some
- writers lump them all together, but I disagree.
-
- ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FLAT, HOLLOW, INVERTED EARTH THEORIES
-
- Works discussing all:
- ---------------------
-
- Gardner, Martin. "Flat and Hollow." In _Fads and Fallacies In the Name
- of Science_ New York: Dover Publications, 1957, 16-27. Good starting
- point. Unfortunalty, does not discuss current followers.
-
- Moore, Patrick. _Can You Speak Venusian? A Guide to the Independent
- Thinkers_ New York: W.W. Norton Co, 1972. A sort of British version
- of Fads & Fallacies. has a chapter on Flat Earthers (British), another
- on Hollow & inverted earthers (including Germans), and one on an
- alternate universe that is in a class by itself.
-
- Sladek, John. _The New Apocrapha_ New York: Stein and Day, 1973.
- Another British version of Fads&Fallacies, but much longer and some
- what more humorous. Very good book, wish someone would bring it back in
- print (Prometheus??) Touches on Flat, Hollow, and Inverted and Nazi
- interest.
-
- Time-Life Books. "An Interior World." In _Mystic Places_ NY:
- Time-Life Books, 1987, 138-154. Good article on hollow & inverted,
- also mentioning nazi interst, Ray Palmer, etc.
-
- Webb, James. "Cosmology (Occult)." In _Encyclopedia of the Unexplained_
- Richard Cavendish, ed. NY: McGraw-Hill, 1974, 66-69. Overview of all
- three plus 'world ice theory' & nazi's interest in inverted earth.
-
- Works discussing Flat Earth theories:
- -------------------------------------
-
- Reader's Digest. _Strange Stories, Amazing Facts_. Pleasantville, NY:
- Reader's Digest Association, 1976. Article discussing current Flat
- Earth Society.
-
- Schadewald, Robert. "Some Like it Flat." In _Fringes of Reason_ Ted
- Schultz, ed. New York: Harmony Books, 1989, 86-88. At present,
- definitive history of movement.
-
- Schadewald, Robert. _The Plane Truth_ As yet unpublished work on Flatearthers.
-
- Works discussing Hollow Earth theories:
- ---------------------------------------
-
- Bernard, Raymond. _The Hollow Earth_ New York: Bell Publ, 1979.
- Talks about past advocates Gardner and Reed, adds new ideas like Ring
- Nebulae as proof of hollow worlds.
-
- Clute, John, and Peter Nicholls. "Captain Adam Seaborn." In _The
- Science Fiction Encycopedia_ Peter Nicholls, ed. New York: Doubleday,
- 1979, 535. About Seaborn and book Symzonia. Felt Symmes was not
- Seaborn.
-
- Elwood, Ann. "Inside the Good Earth: What's Going on Under Our Feet?"
- In _People's Almanac_ David Wallechinsky & Irving Wallace, ed. New
- York: Doubleday & Co, 1975, 691-695. Basic article on subject, good
- list of hollow earth science fiction.
-
- Gardner, Martin. "Who Was Ray Palmer?" In his _The New Age: Notes of a
- Fringe Watcher_ Prometheus Books, 1992, 209-222. Talks of Ray
- Palmer's interest in Hollow earth and reveals true i.d. of "Dr" Raymond
- Bernard of _The Hollow Earth_.
-
- Gardner, William B. _A Journey to the Earth's Interior_ 1920. Basic
- work after Reed, see Schultz on where to order copy.
-
- Haining, Peter. "Subterranean Worlds." In his _The Ancient Mysteries
- Reader_ Garden City, NJ: Doubleday & Co, 1975. Idea of books is to
- print fiction based on ancient mysteries. Has a section on Hollow
- Earth publishing Poe's "Ms. Found in a Bottle" and part of Lytton's
- Coming Race along with an intro/overview.
-
- Reader's Digest. _Strange Stories, Amazing Facts_ Article focused on
- Symmes.
-
- Reed, William. _The Phantom of the Poles_ 1906. First basic work
- after Symmes. See Schultz on where to order copy.
-
- Ted Schultz. "Jumping Geography." In _Fringes of Reason_ Ted Schultz,
- ed. New York: Harmony Books, 1989, 89-91. Short on article of basic
- works, plus where to order copies.
-
- Shepard, Leslie A. "Hollow Earth." In _Encyclopedia of Occultism and
- Parasychology, Vol I_ Detroit: Gale Research Co, 1978, 431-432.
- Short, basic article.
-
- Smith, Warren. _The Hidden Secrets of the Hollow Earth_ New York:
- Zebra Books, 1976. Looks at many hollow earth ideas and also related
- idea of great caverns in earth's crust. Some times skeptical,
- neutral, and accepting of ideas. Journalistic: i.e. no footnotes or
- bibliography.
-
- Stanton, William. _The Great United States Exploring Expedition of
- 1838-1842_ Univ of California Press, 1975. Symmes was influence on
- the organizing of expedition. Only second chapter devoted to him and
- his followers.
-
- Symmes, John Cleves. _Symzonia_ NY: Arno Press, 1975. This book
- original published as by "Captian Seaborn". Many have debated on
- whether Seaborn was Symmes. If Arno has reprinted this as by Symmes,
- I wonder what makes them think so. This was an early novel discribing
- a trip into a hollow earth.
-
- Walton, Bruce A. _A Guide to the Inner Earth_ Health Research, 1983.
- Bibliography on articles about great caverns in earth's crust. HR
- also publishes Reed & Garnder. See Schultz.
-
- Works discussing "Inverted Earth" theories:
- -------------------------------------------
-
- Andrew, Allen H. _A Yank Pioneer in Florida_ Jacksonville, FL:
- Douglas Priting Co, 1950. Autobio by member, and later a leader of Koreshan
- Unity. "Osted" in power struggle, but almost nothing on Koreshan
- beliefs.
-
- Berrey, Richard S. _The Koreshan Unity: An Economic History of a
- Communistic Experiment in Florida_ Master's thesis, University of
- Florida, 1928.
-
- Carmer, Carl. "The Great Alchemist at Utica." In his _Dark Trees to the
- Wind_ NY: William Sloane Assoc, 1949. Book is on NY state, one
- chapter on Koresh as he was from NY. Describes visit by author to
- Estero in 1948.
-
- Damkohler, Capt. E.E. _Estero, Fla. 1882_ Ft Myers Beach, FL, Island
- Press, 1967. Koreshans settled on author's father's land when he was
- a boy. Author has no liking for Koreshans.
-
- Fine, Howard David. _The Koreshan Unity- Utopian Community: "We Live
- Inside the World"_ Master's thesis. Notre Dame University, 1972. Have
- not seen.
-
- Gardner, Martin. "Occam's Razor and the Nutshell Earth" _Skeptical
- Inquirer 12_ (1979): 355-358. Article on current 'scientific'
- adherents to inverted earth.
-
- Herbert, G.M. and I.S.K. Reeves V. _Koreshan Unity Settlement,
- 1894-1977_ Florida Dept of Natural Resources, 1977. Mainly
- architectural work, does give basic history and beliefs of
- Koreshanity.
-
- Hogan, Joanna. "Park Preserves Vestiges of Hollow-Earth Cult." _Miami
- Herald_ 2 april 1989. J4. Basic article on Koreshan Park, done for
- paper's Travel section.
-
- Koreshan, Cyrus Reed Teed. _The Cellular Cosmogony_ Philadelphia:
- Porcupine Press, 1975. Reprints the basic Koreshan book which gives
- "evidence" of their claim. New intro by history discusses K. Unity
- history.
-
- Mackle, Elliot J., Jr. _The Koreshan Unity in Florida, 1894-1910_
- Master's thesis, Univ of Miami, 1971. Have copy.
-
- Melton, J. Gordon. "Koreshan Unity." In his _Encyclopedia of American
- Religion, 2nd ed_ Detroit: Gale Research Co, 1987, p 742. Short
- description, gives address of person in Vero Beach.
- "Teed, Cyrus Read." In his _Biographical Dictionary of American
- Cult & Sect Leaders_ New York: Garland Publ, 1986. 287-288. Brief
- bio, lists some of his books.
-
- Rainard, Robert Lynn. _In the Name of Humanity: The Koreshan Unity_
- Master's thesis, University of South Florida, 1974. Have copy.
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