Wired.com presents The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy. And here is your host, David Barr

Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 204 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Mark Adams.

He writes for many national magazines, including GQ, Men's Journal and New York.

And he's also the author of the New York Times bestseller

turn right at Machu Picchu.

And we'll be speaking with him today about his book, Meet Me in Atlantis,

across three continents in search of the legendary sunken city.

And now here's our interview with Mark Adams.

All right, so we're here with Mark Adams.

Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, and so your new book is called Meet Me in Atlantis.

So how did this book come about...

Well, it was sort of an odd thing, as you might imagine with Atlantis.

I was researching my last book which was about the rediscovery of Machu Picchu in Peru and that occurred in

1911 so I was looking at some old New York Times microfilm from 1911 and they came across a front page

Times story that said German finds Atlantis in Africa. And I thought it was

German finds Atlantis I don't know you could even look for Atlantis I thought it was you know one of these underwater bubble cities that you see on Saturday morning cartoons

But I read the story and it says, you know, I think the guy's name was Frobisher, using the clues

from Plato's original dialogues, believes that he has finally found the Lost Sea of Atlantis.

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