The Ancient Paths

Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe

By: Graham Robb

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Paperback | 1 September 2014

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387 Pages

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Graham Robb's new book will change the way you see European civilisation. 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.

About the Author

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.

Industry Reviews

'An ingenious and thoroughly gripping historical and archaeological bolt from the blue.' New Statesman, Books of the Year 2013

'The Romans did a good job of writing their predecessors out of history...As Robb makes clear, they told only part of the story.' Observer

'The findings of Graham Robb, a biographer and historian, bring into question two millennia of thinking about Iron Age Britain and Europe.' Daily Telegraph

'Remarkable...an overarching, wondrous reworking of history.' Philip Hoare, Literary Review

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