While at the Megalithomania conference last month our ‘Standing with Stones’ stand was right next to Peter Marshall’s bookstand. It was great to discover that Peter had made an epic journey visiting megaliths all over the Atlantic seaboard and the Mediterranean in his boat ‘Celtic Gold’. The result of his travels is a wonderful book called Europe’s Lost Civilization – a sort of ‘Standing with Stones’ adventure, but in a sailing boat rather than a camper van. Far more romantic.
Anyway, we did a swap and Peter (great guy) is now a proud owner of a copy of the DVD and I have to tell you that “Europe’s Lost Civilization” is a great read and wonderfully revealing of an aspect of Neolithic and Bronze Age culture that we often forget – that those people were excellent seafarers. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
