In Search of Lost Civilizations: Adventures in Archeology Book

Are you planning to pursue adventure travel? Do you wonder what it would be like to participate in explorations of ancient ruins? To learn from leading experts about the secrets of forgotten cultures? To touch the millennia-old creations of the first civilized people? Then you'll enjoy the journeys of veteran adventure traveler Thom Tansey in The Bonehunter Series.

The legends of ancient civilizations in the Americas have always enthralled Thom. In Search of Lost Civilizations: Adventures In Archeology documents his travel adventure experiences as he seeks to uncover the secrets of people who once flourished in the Western Hemisphere.

Join amateur archeologist Thom Tansey as he explores:
TEOTIHUACAN, the City of the Gods, the first true metropolis of the Americas, near modern-day Mexico City.

The magnificent ruins left behind by the MAYA of Tikal in Guatemala, once the epicenter of vast trade route that stretched all through what is now Central America, from the Pacific Ocean, to the Gulf of Mexico, to the Caribbean Sea.

The cliff dwellings of the ANASAZI, a pueblo culture that was once centered in the Four Corners area of the Southwest U.S. and that later migrated to the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico.

The HOHOKAM, whose impressive network of hand-dug irrigation canals and ditches, the most extensive north of Peru, allowed them to thrive in the forbidding Sonoran Desert of modern-day Mexico and Arizona.

The MOUND BUILDERS of the Lower Mississippi Valley, whose sophisticated civilizations eventually fell to the diseases and maraudings of European invaders.

To help you plan your adventure travels, Thom has provided a list of resources and contact information, many of which he used to plan his adventures. Plus, he's provided an exhaustive bibliography of publications for further reading on the topics covered in this book.

About the Author
Thom Tansey, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the University of Miami. For the past 25 years, he has practiced law in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Thom began his travel adventures some 20 years ago with a four-day jaunt to Costa Rica to climb an active volcano, wade in shark-infested waters, and mingle with the locals. It was a brief trip, but it set the stage for a lifetime of travel and learning. Since then, he has excavated dinosaur bones, explored ancient ruins, learned to fly helicopters and airships, become certified in nitrox diving, rafted whitewater rivers, and taken lessons in hot air balloons, hang gliders, and aerobatic planes. He has swum with manatees, frolicked with dolphins, cruised the Everglades in an airboat, learned to Eskimo-roll a kayak, and taken professional auto-racing courses. He has been helicoptered to ice floes in the St. Lawrence River in the dead of winter to witness the birth of thousands of snow-white harp seals, patrolled the arctic tundra in a rugged buggy to photograph the annual migration of the polar bears onto the ice of Hudson Bay, snowmobiled through Yellowstone National Park for close-up views of the bison and elk foraging through the snow, among many other exciting experiences. Thom's future adventure travel plans include continued exploration of Mayan ruins, diving with sharks, and digging up Ice Age mammals. He is currently working on the next volume in The Bonehunter Series, which will cover his experiences finding and excavating dinosaur bones, some as old as 150 million years