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This French novel of 'Atlantis in the Sahara' made a huge splash when it was published.
The exotic Saharan setting, the stories of desert survival, the overpowering allure of the last Queen of Atlantis, make a memorable, if a bit pulpy, read.
Over a dozen films have been made of this plot, to the point where it is almost a subgenre of the lost-civilization adventure film in itself.
The author was sued (and lost) at one point because the plot is fairly close to that of Haggard's She.
However, it is thought Benoit had no exposure to Haggard prior writing L'Antlantide, so this appears to be a case of literary convergent evolution.
This online text was scanned and proofed from scratch, from a 1920 edition of this translation of the book.
Therefore it may differ slightly from the Project Gutenberg version, which was sourced from a 1964 Ace paperback edition.
That edition has 192 pages and some obvious differences, e.g.,
a dedication in the Ace which does not appear in the 1920 printing.
NOTE: Unicode is used to display Greek in this text.
I've also made a sketch map of the route in the book through the Sahara.

Title Page

Contents

Preface

Chapter I. A Southern Assignment

Chapter II. Captain de Saint-Avit

Chapter III. The Morhange-Saint-Avit Mission

Chapter IV. Towards Latitude 25

Chapter V. The Inscription

Chapter VI. The Disaster of the Lettuce

Chapter VII. The Country of Fear

Chapter VIII. Awakening At Ahaggar

Chapter IX. Atlantis

Chapter X. The Red Marble Hall

Chapter XI. Antinea

Chapter XII. Morhange Disappears

Chapter XIII. The Hetman of Jitomir's Story

Chapter XIV. Hours of Waiting

Chapter XV. The Lament of Tanit-Zerga

Chapter XVI. The Silver Hammer

Chapter XVII. The Maidens of the Rocks

Chapter XVIII. The Fire-Flies

Chapter XIX. The Tanezruft

Chapter XX. The Circle Is Complete
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