Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek

Name: Extraordinary Voyage of Pytheas the Greek
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ISBN: 9780142002544

ISBN-10: 0142002542

ISBN-13: 9780142002544

Edition: 2003

Authors: Barry Cunliffe

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Around 330 b.c., a remarkable adventurer named Pytheas set out from the Greek colony of Massalia (now Marseille) on the Mediterranean Sea to explore the fabled, terrifying lands of northern Europe. Renowned archaeologist Barry Cunliffe here re-creates Pytheas's unprecedented journey, which occurred almost 300 years before Julius Caesar landed in Britain. Beginning with an invaluable pocket history of early Mediterranean civilization, Cunliffe illuminates what Pytheas would have seen and experienced-the route he likely took to reach Brittany, then Britain, Iceland, and Denmark; and evidence of the ancient cultures he would have encountered on shore. The discoveries Pytheas made would…

Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.70" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Barry Cunliffe is Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford. The author of over 40 books, including The Ancient Celts, published by Oxford University Press, he has served as President of the Council for British Archaeology and the Society of Antiquaries, and is currently a member of the Ancient Monuments Board of English Heritage.