Scholarly Review of the Ancient Paths by Graham Robb
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Published on October 18th, 2013
The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe by Graham Robb
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Blurb:The idea that became this book arrived 1 evening like an unwanted visitor. It clearly expected to stay for a long time, and I knew that its presence in my home would be extremely compromising. Treasure maps and hugger-mugger paths vest to childhood. An adult scholar who sees an undiscovered ancient world reveal itself, consummate with charts, didactics transmission and guidebook, is bound to question the functioning of his mental equipment . . .
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When Graham Robb made plans to cycle the legendary Via Heraklea, he had no idea that the line he plotted – stretching from the southward-western tip of the Iberian Peninsula, across the Pyrenees and towards the Alps – would change the fashion he saw a civilization. Information technology was an ancient path that took him deep into the globe of the Celts: their gods, their art, and, most of all, their sophisticated knowledge of science. Gradually, a lost map revealed itself, of an empire synthetic with precision and dazzler across vast tracts of Europe. Oriented according to the movements of the Celtic sun god, the map had been forgotten for nigh two millennia. 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. The Aboriginal Paths was published in America every bit The Discovery of Eye Earth: Mapping the Lost Earth of the Celts.
(Picador, 2013)
Tim Martin, Telegraph
"…a glorious book … Robb describes in his introduction the secretive meetings with publishers in London and New York that kept a lid on the book's research until publication, and watching its conclusions percolate through popular and academic history promises to be thrilling. Reading it is already an electrifying and uncanny experience: there is something gloriously unmodern about seeing a whole new perspective on history then comprehensively birthed in a single book. If true, very important indeed."
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Philip Hoare,Literary Review
"The Aboriginal Paths is an overarching, wondrous reworking of history rooted in painstaking, if not obsessive, enquiry. And if its fantastical connections and cabalistic details leave the reader reeling, perhaps that is simply a reflection of the astounding complication and continuing mystery of a lost civilisation that Graham Robb has restored to its rightful identify."
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Adam Nicolson, London Evening Standard
"I don't know how whatever of us can tell if the theory is true. It is a petty unsettling that the central node of the conceptual map of Celtic England turns out to be the meadows and cricket pitches of the University Parks in Oxford where Robb has washed most "ruminating" for this book. But Robb'south own calm eloquence is securely persuasive and the idea that in pre-Roman Europe at that place was "a parallel world of lost majesty" is worked out and so systematically, with and so many amazing coincidences, that past the end of it I was cheering."
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Tom Shippey, The Guardian
"If you accept Robb's complex arguments, drawn from astronomy, philology, archaeology and history, you lot do indeed go a new view of an ancient civilisation, bulldozed into oblivion (like the Celtic-Gaulish language) by Rome. Simply there are weak points to his argument. I is too set a belief in druids."
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John Carey, The Sun Times
"Graham Robb'south many admirers are in for a shock. Compared with his delightful rambles through history in The Discovery of France and Parisians, this new book is shrill, tendentious and forbiddingly technical … It seems probable that the druids, foreseeing the future, and foreseeing that the time to come would bring forth Robb, who would spill the beans about their secret sunday-grid, placed a expletive of unreadability on the parts of his book that relate to them. The bright side is that all he has to do is cease writing about druids and his magic bear upon will render."
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