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The Discovery Of Middle Earth
Graham Robb
Mapping the Lost World of the Celts
W.W. Norton
November 2013
On Sale: October 29, 2013
416 pages
ISBN: 039308163X
EAN: 9780393081633
Kindle: B00COQ6XGI
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction History
A treasure hunt that uncovers the secrets of one of
the world’s great civilizations, revealing dramatic proof of
the extreme sophistication of the Celts, and their creation
of the earliest accurate map of the world. Fifty
generations ago the cultural empire of the Celts stretched
from the Black Sea to Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland.
In six hundred years, the Celts had produced some of the
finest artistic and scientific masterpieces of the ancient
world. In 58 BC, Julius Caesar marched over the Alps,
bringing slavery and genocide to western Europe. Within
eight years the Celts of what is now France were utterly
annihilated, and in another hundred years the Romans had
overrun Britain. It is astonishing how little remains of
this great civilization. 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.
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