What's packaged as a straightforward Ancient Astronaut piece is really far more outre. Every strange humanoid, hairy beast, and whats-it that populate the paperbacks are in fact Creatures from the Inner Sphere, dispatched by the ultra-terrestrials as inscrutable experiments on humankind. The out-of-place artifacts and impossible ancient wonders listed on the cover are evidence of more of the same. Jacques Bergier previously coauthored The Morning of the Magicians, the Ancient Astronaut ur-text from which all the Chariots sprang, von Daniken's included.
The very French text for Extraterrestrial Visitations was translated into English in 1973 by the famous conservative publisher the Henry Regnery Company.
Signet Books, 1974 (original pub. 1970)
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