The History of Atlantis by William Scott-Elliott, an amateur anthropologist and member of the Theosophical Society founded by E. P. Blavatsky, was published in 1896 (translation into Russian 1910 . ) and became the first popular source of systematized facts, hypotheses and occult ideas on the geography of ancient continents, ethnology and history of races and peoples that inhabited the Earth hundreds of thousands of years before us. The electronic version of the book includes an Appendix with four maps of the world of Atlantis . "The Story of Atlantis" by William Scott-Elliot, Theosophical Publishing House, London, 1909