The Celts

by Frank De Laney (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1986

  $3.25

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $3.25

  This book, a companion volume to the BBC2 television series, aims to trace the origin, growth, flowering and eventual decline of the Celts, a people who are traditionally portrayed as wild, excitable, warlike, ferocious and uncivilized. Despite their numerical smallness the author contends that they made a major contribution to Western civilization. The author originated the Radio 4 programme Bookshelf and the Frank Delaney series on BBC television. His previous books are James Joyce's Odyssey and Betjeman Country .