This new edition of Michael Wood's groundbreaking first book explores the fascinating & mysterious centuries between the Romans & the Norman Conquest of 1066. In Search of the Dark Ages vividly conjures up some of the most famous names in British history, such as Queen Boadicea, leader of a terrible war of resistance against the Romans, & King Arthur, the 'once & future king', for whose riddle Wood proposes a new & surprising solution. Here too, warts & all, are the Saxon, Viking & Norman kings who laid the political foundations of England
- Offa of Mercia, Alfred the Great, Athelstan, & William the Conqueror, whose victory at Hastings in 1066 marked the end of Anglo-Saxon Engl&. Reflecting recent historical, textual & archaeological research, this revised & updated edition of Michael Wood's classic book overturns preconceptions of the Dark Ages as a shadowy & brutal era, showing them to be a richly exciting & formative period in the history of Britain. ' With In Search of the Dark Ages, Michael Wood wrote the book for history on TV.' The Times ' Michael Wood is the maker of some of the best TV documentaries ever made on history & archaeology.' Times Literary Supplement
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Five thousand years ago there began the most momentous revolution in human history. Starting in Mesopotamia, city civilization emerged for the first time on earth, to be followed in Egypt, India, China & the Americas. The ideals of these ancient civilizations still shape the lives of the majority of mankind. In Search of the First Civilizations (previously published as Legacy) asks the intriguing question: what is civilization? Did it mean the same to the Chinese, the Indians & the Greeks? What can the values of the ancient cultures teach us today? & do the ideals of the West
- a latecomer to civilization
- really have universal validity? In this fascinating historical search, Michael Wood explores these ancient cultures, looking for their essential character & their continuing legacy. A brilliant exploration. Sunday Times Well-written, gorgeous & guaranteed to induce thought... Wood takes great care to put everything in a large historical perspective, which is actually more disturbing than comforting. New York Post

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Ian Stafford has tried his hand at most sports. & what's more, for his two previous books In Your Dreams & Playground ...

For thousands of years we have been enthralled by tales of Troy & its heroes. Achilles & Hector, Paris & the famed beauty Helen remain some of the most enduring figures in art & literature. But did these titanic characters really walk the earth? Was there ever an actual siege of Troy? In this new, extensively revised edition Michael Wood takes account of the latest dramatic developments in the search for Troy. A new preface, a new final chapter & an addendum to the bibliography bring his wide-ranging study of the complex, archaeological, literary & historical records up to date. Detailing the rediscovery in Moscow of the so-called jewels of Helen & the re-excavation of the site of Troy begun in 1988, which continues to yield new evidence about the historical city, this superbly illustrated book takes a fresh look at some of the most exciting discoveries in archaeology. ...

Tom Callahan has written the seminal book on golfing great Tiger Woods. Woods who has gone out of his way to protect his privacy, has never allowed himself to get close enough to a writer to be properly examined on the page. & as a consequence, his fans know relatively little about him except what's divulged in quick tournament interviews or the scarce information passed out on occasion by one of his handlers. Callahan, commonly regarded as one of the best international all-round sportswriters, has followed Tiger around the world of golf for over seven years, enjoying a certain access to the man & his parents Earl & Kutilda Woods. His relationship with the family deepened whe he undertook a remarkable journey to Vietnam to learn the fate of the South Vietnamese soldier who was Earl Woods' best friend during the war
- & his son's namesake. Tiger is a 20-year old when the book opens & 27 when it closes. During those years Callahan covered Woods at all the majors, including the Masters, the US Open, the British Open, culminating in Tiger's heart-stopping race to make history by clinching the string of Majors, affectionately nicknamed the Tiger Slam. As the pulse of the world of gold was measured by the curve of his swing, Tiger made everyone skip a beat as he attempted to win the Grand Slam a year later.
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After following the notoriously private Tiger Woods around the world of golf for over a decade, Tom Callahan has written the seminal book on this golfing great.

He has covered Woods at all the majors, including the Masters, the US Open & the British Open, & he was there every step of the way during Tiger

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On the 29th of October 1908, a party of four men, led by Ernest Shackleton, set out to be the first to reach the South Pole. Three months later, their mission was in ruins & they faced certain death if they carried on. Just 97 miles from the South Pole, Shackleton turned back.

One hundred years on, in October 2008, a team that included descendants of that original party, led by Henry Worsley, set out from Shackleton

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This is the account of Thubron's 15, 000-mile journey through an astonishing country
- one twelfth of the land surface of the
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