Scott Sir Walter: Perveril of the Peak.

by the author of "Waverley, Kenilworth," etc.

In Four Volumes

Vols I - 3 of 4

FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE

1822 - Edinburgh - For Archibald Constable and Co

7" by 4" - 302, 319, 315, 320pp

Book Description: Archibald Constable and Co. Ltd., Edinburgh, 1822. Three-Quarter Leather. Book Condition: Very Good. Three quarter maroon leather over maroon boards. Gilt titling and decorations on spine.  Page size 4" by 6.75" tall. Faded gilt to top edge, red side and bottom edges. Nicely bound. Vol 1 very good. 2 and 3 excellent condition.

£ 99.00

Milton, John: The Poetical Works 

Volume I (of 3)
333  pages
1826 William Pickering etc
Book condition: good; slightly rubbed to covers; some staining staining to frontispiece. 

£ 9.99

Tome Premier

Book Description: Paris, chez Firmin Didot Frères, Fils et Cie, Libraires, 1857.

Excellent condition!

Tobias Churton, The Gnostics (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987).

1st Edition. Good condition.

A comprehensive, well researched and objective study, encompassing Gnostic teachings, and literature. Includes a useful chronological table. (This book was originally written to accompany a television documentary on "The Gnostics", produced by in Great Britain by Boarder Television in 1987.)

Good Condition, dust jacket a little damaged.

Graham Hancock's latest foray into the murky uncharted waters of the past is, in this case, exactly that--Underworld is an exploration of what lies beneath the sea, mainly off the coasts of India, Malta and Japan. Hancock, well known for his disputes with orthodox archaeologists, argues that they ought to be looking underwater for submerged ruins, and that by not doing so they are stubbornly holding on to out-dated and incorrect theories. Hancock doesn't have a lot of time for academics. Most of them, he seems to suggest, having spent their careers safely in their ivory towers, are unwilling even to consider new paradigms which could overturn everything they have learnt and taught. And Hancock's thesis would do just that.

In Underworld--the book of his Channel 4 TV series--he argues that far from springing out of nowhere some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, civilisation has been with mankind for many millennia longer. With the aid of a geologist at Durham University, Hancock examines which coastal areas vanished beneath the sea as the ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age, a catastrophic inundation he finds in the Flood myths of most of the world's traditional religions. And then he goes diving and finds, in some cases, incontrovertible ruins; in other cases the piles of stone might well be natural rock formations, but Hancock argues for their human origins.

Hancock accepts that he is neither a historian, an archaeologist nor a geologist. Some of his arguments tend to be rather speculative, and some of his conclusions may well be wrong--it's not always a good thing to ignore the experts! But in this massive book--well over 700 pages--he does provide sufficient evidence for flooded ruins that ought to be studied by real scholars. And if a few cherished paradigms are overturned in the process, surely this is what science is all about. --David V Barrett

Review
Hancock has virtually cornered the market in this kind of speculative writing, and his reputation as the New Age answer to David Attenborough is well earned. Much of the ancient world inherited by our ancestors now lies under water after melting ice caps flooded vast areas at the end of the last Ice Age. New advances in geology and marine technology mean that the great archaeological finds of this coming century will more than likely be found under the oceans. It now looks likely that large populations of early humans were obliterated from the historical record by this catastrophe over 10,000 years ago. But who were these populations: hunter-gatherers or more sophisticated peoples? Hancock applies his customary imaginative speculation on a quest to find some of the answers.

No stranger to controversy, Graham Hancock has had armchair archaeologists glued to the box with his television series Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age, which this book accompanies. Citing the numerous clues in historical manuscripts (such as the Hindu Vedas) and ancient mythology, he scurries around the globe in search of the evidence he believes exists for a number of highly advanced civilizations wiped out by the flood at the end of the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago. The people who then inhabited the earth were not mere hunter-gatherers (as is generally accepted) but altogether more sophisticated, capable of building great city-states. Hancock's odyssey takes him to India, China, Japan and Malta, and involves the reader not just in a great deal of archaeological background and know-how, but in the practicalities, risks and pleasures of diving - for these alleged remains are all to be found underwater. No stone is left unturned (nor unattributed to human hands) in Hancock's quest, which culminates in 'an explosive revelation of a global mystery'. Of course, one is tempted to view all this with a certain degree of scepticism. After all, Hancock is in a minority among marine archaeologists. Most experts dispute or even dismiss outright his claims, and maintain that the structures he has found are not man-made at all, but natural. Frankly, it's hard to tell from the murky photographs on show here (or the sometimes murky text). This is a truly mammoth undertaking, brevity not being Hancock's strong point, and it reads uncomfortably like a PhD thesis at times, though at others it's refreshingly engaging, almost reminiscent of an Indiana Jones adventure. As Hancock says, it's important that other views (his views) are heard, and his arguments are, to the lay reader, as compelling (and exhaustive) as his enthusiasm is infectious. Stark raving mad or merely bonkers? You decide. (Kirkus UK)

Product Description
A physical and intellectual journey, a worldwide exploration diving for the underwater ruins of a lost civilization, this book follows clues in ancient scriptures and mythlogy and in the scientific evidence of the flood that swept the Earth at the end of the last Ice Age. This text explores the question of early humans swept away by the catastrpohe. Who were these populations - pre-civilised hunter-gatherers or more sophisticated peoples altogether? The text is written as a personal adventure involving the reader in the travels, the practicalities and the risks while developing the larger themes along the way, building up to the explosive revelation of a global mystery.

About the Author
Graham Hancock has been hailed as 'the New Age answer to David Attenbourough' by the Observer and 'the Indiana Jones of alternative archeology' by the Sunday Times. His bestsellers include Heaven's Mirror, Fingerprints of the Gods and The Sign and The Seal. He lives in Devon.

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