The Ancient Paths: Discovering The Lost Map Of Celtic Europe

Author: Graham Robb

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Price : 25.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780330531511
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Imprint : Picador
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Weight (g) : 0.292
Publication date : 01 July 2014
Dimensions : 197mm X 128mm X 26mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
Availability date : 01 September 2014
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Author : Graham Robb
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Language : en
Dewey classification : 936.02
Pages : 387
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Description

Graham Robb's new book will change the way you see European civilization.Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. His investigations gradually revealed something extaordinary: a lost map, of an empire constructed with precision and beauty across vast tracts of Europe. The map had been forgotten for almost two millennia and its implications were astonishing.Minutely researched and rich in revelations, The Ancient Paths brings to life centuries of our distant history and reinterprets pre-Roman Europe. Told with all of Robb's grace and verve, it is a dazzling, unforgettable book.

Awards

Dolman Best Travel Book of the Year Award 2014.

Author description

Graham Robb was born in Manchester in 1958 and is a former fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. He has published widely on French literature and history. His 2007 book The Discovery of France won both the Duff Cooper and Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prizes. For Parisians (2010) the City of Paris awarded him the Grande Medaille de la Ville de Paris. He lives on the English-Scottish border.