[RightWhale]

When Prof Hapgood was talking about the old maps, Piri Reis and Ancient Sea Kings, he happened to be teaching at the Teachers College up in New Hampshire. I lived in that same town at that time. There was also a theory going around town that polar ice would build up periodically and the weight would flip the earth over. This was in the 50s.

I would rate Hapgood as twice the scientist RCH is, and Hancock is not a scientist at all but a journalist, a good one but too nationalistic.

[BlueLancer]

"There was also a theory going around town that polar ice would build up periodically and the weight would flip the earth over."

Another book .. albeit fiction .. that deals with this type of theory was "Atlantis Found" by Clive Cussler. Very interesting reading with an extremely twisting premise.