In Search of Myths and Heroes: Exploring Four Epic Legends of the World

by Michael Wood

Book Overview

In this compelling new book, accompanying the PBS television series of the same name, historian Michael Wood, whose renowned adventures have taken him to many remote and exciting places around the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520247248
• ISBN13: 9780520247246
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.8" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

Myths and Heroes

A good accompaniment to the TV series with the same title. In four 1-hour programmes Michael Wood explores the human need for stories that contain magical elements, set in the past, 'once upon a time'; stories that at the same time appear to contain episodes from the earliest history of the peoples concerned. Wood is a great explorer and each film takes us (the viewers) into marvellous parts of the world: the Himalayas (Shangri La); the Black Sea (Jason and the Argonauts); Bronze Age Britain (King Arthur); and the ancient Middle East (the Queen of Sheba). The series has neither the depth nor the breadth of earlier 'In Search of . . . ' series and books, and I regretted the lack of a detailed list of Further Reading. But it was a most enjoyable series, very well backed up by this book.