Above the Line: My Wild Oats Adventure

Above the Line: My Wild Oats Adventure

A funny, fierce, imaginative memoir chronicling New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award winner Shirley MacLaineâ€™s remarkable experiences filming Wild Oats in the Canary Islands and the extraordinary memories her time there brought forth of a past life on the lost continent of Atlantis.

Her agent told her not to get on the plane. The male leads werenâ€™t even cast. The financing was shaky at best. The script had been re-written countless times. And yet something about Wild Oats lured Shirley MacLaine to the filmâ€™s location shoot in the far-off Canary Islandsâ€”and straight to the center of one of the most thrilling and paradigm-shifting adventures of her life.

The making of the film reads like a screwball comedy, as the cast and crew face unpredictable daily obstacles with ingenuity, grit, and personal sacrifice. Yet the chaos leads Shirley to a revelatory new understanding of the demise of one of historyâ€™s most elusive yet endlessly intriguing places. Scholars have long theorized that Spainâ€™s Canary Islands are the remnants of the mighty lost continent of Atlantis. As the movie set descends into pandemonium, Shirley finds fascinating corollaries between the islandâ€™s cataclysmic fate and our own dangerous trajectory. Can we learn the lessons the citizens of Atlantis failed to comprehend?

The answer is borne out of recovered memories from Shirleyâ€™s past life on Atlantis and through a series of meditations that reveal the necessity of unfettered imagination when looking for bold new truths, rendering this evocative memoir essential reading for anyone seeking a broader understanding of what it means to be humanâ€”both where we came from and where we are going.
Country USA
Brand Atria Books
Manufacturer ATRIA Books
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-03-01
EANs 9781501136412

Country	USA
Brand	Atria Books
Manufacturer	ATRIA Books
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-03-01
EANs	9781501136412

Above the Line: My Wild Oats Adventure

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