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THE DISCOVERY OF MIDDLE EARTH
By: 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 worldโs 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 worldโa beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional โMiddle Earthโ 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. Robbโโone of the more unusual and appealing historians currently striding the planetโ (New York Times)โhere 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.
 Media BuzzOn Point - December 23, 2013
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