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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Celts were the dominant people and culture of Europe north of the Alps between the sixth and first centuries BC. At its peak the Celtic world stretched from the British Isles to the Carpathians and Asia Minor. The ultimate personification of barbarism for their Hellenistic and Roman neighbours the Celts in fact possessed their own vital and highly original civilization revealed in the rich profusion of ornamental motifs that decorate Celtic weapons and artefacts. Their traditions live on in customs names and crafts and they contributed greatly to the formation of Europe. Archaeological excavations have recovered some of the beautiful treasures of the Celts as well as much evidence of their social and economic life. Now the fruits of the very latest research are brought together in the most complete assessment ever of Celtic civilization. We are taken on a voyage through many eras places and themes to rediscover the story of a people still in some ways shrouded in mystery. Their aggressive sallies to Delphi and to the very gates of Rome their settlements from the Iberia peninsula to the great northern plains form just a few strands in a history that stretches far both in time and space. (OS)