Ebook: The Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
Author: CUNLIFFE Barry
- Tags: Albion amber Atlantic Aristotle Armorica astronomy boat-building Britain Cornwall Eratosthenes farming Gadir Gaul Herodotus Hipparchus Ireland Isle of Man Julius Caesar Jutland Keltike Marseille myths Narbo ’On the Ocean’ (Peritou Okeanou) Orkneys Penwith Phoenicians Pliny Plymouth Sound Polybius Ptolemy Pytheas of Massalia Rome Scilly Isles Scotland Shetland Strabo Timaeus tin trade Vikings Xenophon
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: Penguin
- City: London
- Language: English
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The Man Who Discovered Britain.
'Some 2,300 years ago a Greek adventurer named Pytheas set out on an astonishing expedition to find out what lay in the fabled lands of Northern Europe. Rumours abounded of these fearsome barbarian territories, but Pytheas was the first literate man ever to visit them. Here Barry Cunliffe re-creates his staggering journey as he sailed to the islands of Britannia, home of our distant ancestors--the 'tattooed folk'--and beyond, all the way to Ultima Thule, the mysterious Arctic limits of the known world...'--back cover blurb
'Some 2,300 years ago a Greek adventurer named Pytheas set out on an astonishing expedition to find out what lay in the fabled lands of Northern Europe. Rumours abounded of these fearsome barbarian territories, but Pytheas was the first literate man ever to visit them. Here Barry Cunliffe re-creates his staggering journey as he sailed to the islands of Britannia, home of our distant ancestors--the 'tattooed folk'--and beyond, all the way to Ultima Thule, the mysterious Arctic limits of the known world...'--back cover blurb
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