Description
While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb discovered a door to that forgotten world--a beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional "Middle Earth" of the Celts. As coordinates and coincidences revealed themselves across the continent, a map of the Celtic world emerged as a miraculously preserved archival document.
Robb--"one of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planet" (New York Times)--here reveals the ancient secrets of the Celts, demonstrates the lasting influence of Druid science, and recharts the exploration of the world and the spread of Christianity. A pioneering history grounded in a real-life historical treasure hunt, The Discovery of Middle Earth offers nothing less than an entirely new understanding of the birth of modern Europe.
Product Details
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Publish Date | November 04, 2013 |
| Pages | 416 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Hardback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780393081633 |
| Dimensions | 9.4 X 6.4 X 1.3 inches | 1.6 pounds |
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Reviews
Combines travelogue and historical detective story.... The work of a man to whom the past is vividly present.--Ian Morris "New York Times Book Review"
Fascinating...The historical value of Robb's vivid portrait of Celtic culture is unquestionable.--Wendy Smith "Los Angeles Times"
Presenting one of the most astonishing, significant discoveries in recent memory, Robb, winner of the Duff Cooper Prize and Ondaatje Award for The Discovery of France, upends nearly everything we believe about the history--or, as he calls it, 'protohistory'--of early Europe and its barbarous Celtic tribes and semimythical Druids.... Like the vast and intricate geographical latticework that Robb has uncovered, the book unfurls its secrets in an eerie, magnificent way--a remarkable, mesmerizing, and bottomless work.-- "Publishers Weekly, Starred Review and Pick of the Week"
Raises intriguing questions about the relationship between tribe and empire, local identity and larger superstructure.--Rachel Donadio "New York Times"
Upends nearly everything we believe about the history... of early Europe.--Gabe Habash "Publishers Weekly"
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