Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock is the author of the major international
bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints
of the Gods and Heaven's Mirror. His books
have sold more than five million copies worldwide
and have been translated into 27 languages.
His public lectures and TV appearances, including
the three-hour series Quest For The Lost Civilisation,
have put his ideas before audiences of tens
of millions. He has become recognised as an
unconventional thinker who raises legitimate
questions about humanity's history and prehistory
and offers an increasingly popular challenge
to the entrenched views of orthodox scholars.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock's early
years were spent in India, where his father
worked as a surgeon. Later he went to school
and university in the northern English city
of Durham and graduated from Durham University
in 1973 with First Class Honours in Sociology.
He went on to pursue a career in quality journalism,
writing for many of Britain's leading newspapers
including The Times, The Sunday Times, The
Independent, and The Guardian. He was co-editor
of New Internationalist magazine from 1976-1979
and East Africa correspondent of The Economist
from 1981-1983.
In the early 1980's Hancock's writing began
to move consistently in the direction of books.
His first book (Journey Through Pakistan, with
photographers Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts)
was published in 1981. It was followed by Under
Ethiopian Skies (1983), Ethiopia: The Challenge
of Hunger (1984), and AIDS: The Deadly Epidemic
(1986). In 1987 Hancock began work on his widely-acclaimed
critique of foreign aid, Lords of Poverty,
which was published in 1989. African Ark (with
photographers Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith)
was published in 1990.
Hancock's breakthrough to bestseller status
came in 1992 with the publication of The Sign
and The Seal, his epic investigation into the
mystique and whereabouts today of the lost
Ark of the Covenant. 'Hancock has invented
a new genre,' commented The Guardian, 'an intellectual
whodunit by a do-it-yourself sleuth.' Fingerprints
of the Gods, published in 1995 confirmed Hancock's
growing reputation. Described as 'one of the
intellectual landmarks of the decade' by the
Literary Review, this book has now sold more
than three million copies and continues to
be in demand all around the world. Subsequent
works such as Keeper Of Genesis (The Message
of the Sphinx in the US) with co-author Robert
Bauval, and Heaven's Mirror, with photographer
Santha Faiia, have also been Number 1 bestsellers,
the latter accompanied by Hancock's three-part
television series Quest For the Lost Civilisation.
In 2002 Hancock published Underworld: Flooded
Kingdoms of the Ice Age to great critical acclaim,
and hosted the accompanying major TV series.
This was the culmination of years of research
and on-hand dives at ancient underwater ruins.
Arguing that many of the clues to the origin
of civilization lay underwater, on coastal
regions once above water but flooded at the
end of the last Ice age, Underworld offered
tangible archaeological evidence that myths
and legends of ancient floods were not to be
dismissed out of hand.
Graham's next venture Talisman - The Sacred
Cities and The Secret Faith, co-authored by
Robert Bauval, was released in May 2004. This
work, a decade in preparation, returns to the
themes last dealt with in Keeper Of Genesis,
seeking further evidence for the continuation
of a secret astronomical cult into modern times.
It is a roller-coaster intellectual journey
through the back streets and rat runs of history
to uncover the traces in architecture and monuments
of a secret religion that has shaped the world.
In Supernatural – Meetings with the Ancient
Teachers of Mankind - Graham Hancock leads us
on a quest to discover the origins of language,
art, symbolism and creative thinking on this
planet. Hancock dares to challenge our perceptions
of consciousness and reality. His masterly story
telling is underpinned by the insights of eminent
scientists engaged in cutting edge research.
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