The Discovery of Middle Earth, (Paperback)

from Eyejaybee

The general perception of the Celts has been as a fairly chaotic and peripatetic people, renowned for their hedonism rather than their inclination towards developing any lasting infrastructure. In this book Graham Robb strives to overthrow that view. It is not an easy book to read, and I was temp...

from Eyejaybee

The general perception of the Celts has been as a fairly chaotic and peripatetic people, renowned for their hedonism rather than their inclination towards developing any lasting infrastructure. In this book Graham Robb strives to overthrow that view. It is not an easy book to read, and I was temp...

from Eyejaybee

The general perception of the Celts has been as a fairly chaotic and peripatetic people, renowned for their hedonism rather than their inclination towards developing any lasting infrastructure. In this book Graham Robb strives to overthrow that view. It is not an easy book to read, and I was temp...

from PDCRead

This book is Robb's theory of how the ancient celts organised themselves. Whilst following the legendary Via Heraklea he concludes that this pre Roman peoples layout of settlements and ritual sites follow a series of solstice lines across Gaul (France). These lines follow a particular angle, from...

from tangborn

This book was a bit of a disappointment to me. I really liked Graham Robb's first two books, but this one didn't seem to be on the same level. I think the problem is that the thesis of the work, that Celts were both so obsessed with winter/summer solstice, and so good at geometry and mapping that...