The Discovery of Middle Earth: Mapping the Lost World of the Celts

by Graham Robb

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039308163X
• ISBN13: 9780393081633
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.4"