We Reach The Moon Analysis

John Noble Wilford is an American science author, journalist, reporter and correspondent. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science in journalism. Few years later, he earned a master’s degree in political science from Syracuse University. He began his career as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal then he moved to The New York Times to become a science reporter, national news editor assistant, and director of science news. John has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Apollo mission and again for his coverage of the Challenger disaster. He also wrote several books including “The mapmakers” and “We reach the Moon”. He still nowadays write some anthropological articles for The New York Times. …show more content…
The article describes the aspects of the myth and the countless hypotheses and eventualities about founding the “lost continent”. Wilford’s writing also brings several new and determinant findings about the Atlantis, made by researchers, geologists and archeologists : Despite all the efforts of researchers and divers in the ocean depths, there was no evidence, even just a very small, of the existence of Atlantis in the areas that have been investigated, especially in the Atlantic.
Beside the fact that the myth of the Atlantis has inspired generations of adventurers, writers, mystics, and filmmakers, the author came back to analyze and scrutinize the writings of Plato trying to understand what he really wanted to insinuate by Atlantis.
Perhaps it was a pure poetic creation of Plato’s imagination, maybe