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While planning a bicycling trip along the Heraklean Way, the ancient route from Portugal to the Alps, Graham Robb discovered a door to that forgotten worlda beautiful and precise pattern of towns and holy places based on astronomical and geometrical measurements: this was the three-dimensional Middle Earth of the Celts. As coordinates and coincidences revealed themselves across the continent, a map of the Celtic world emerged as a miraculously preserved archival document.New York TimesThe Discovery of Middle Earth

Physical Description; 387 pages: map; 25 cm. Contents; The road from the ends of the earth -- News of the Iron Age -- The Mediolanum mystery, I -- The Mediolanum mystery, II -- Down the meridian -- The size of the world -- The Druidic syllabus, I: elementary -- The Druidic syllabus, II: advanced -- Paths of the gods -- The forest and beyond -- Cities of middle earth -- The gods victorious -- The poetic isles -- The four royal roads -- The end of middle earth -- Return of the Druids -- Epilogue: a traveller's guide to middle earth. Includes bibliographical references and index (p. 329-357). Subjects; Celts--History. Mythology, Celtic.