The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe

by Graham Robb

Graham Robb's The Ancient Paths 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 extraordinary: 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.

• ISBN10: 0330531514
• ISBN13: 9780330531511
• Publish Date: 3 July 2014 (first published 10 October 2013)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Imprint: Picador
• Format: Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
• Pages: 400
• Language: English

Reviews

[pamela]

Graham Robb clearly has a passion for Celtic Britain and his love shows through in his language and writing style. I found the book to make excessive use of overly descriptive language however, which made the well reasoned arguments sometimes get lost in its flowery analysis.

Perhaps this choice of language was deliberate in order to disguise the highly speculative nature of Robb's thesis, however it made it rather difficult and long winded to read.

It is certainly a book that I can recommend for those interested in early British history, but it did fail to keep my interest for any length of time.