If any one book put ley lines on the map, re-enchanted the British landscape and made Glastonbury the capital of the New Age it was John Michell’s seminal 1969 tome The View Over Atlantis. On the 40th anniversary of its publication, BOB RICKARD ponders how The View Over Atlantis, its precursor The Flying Saucer Vision (1967), its sequel The City of Revelation (1971) helped create a new paradigm in our approach to strange phenomena, and offers an essential John Michell bibliography.

This year is the 40th anniversary of the first publication John Michell’s The View over Atlantis, probably the most influential book in the history of the hippy/underground movement and one that had far-reaching effects on the study of strange phenomena.