Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past
By: Neil Oliver
3.97
Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition
THE PERFECT READ FOR TROUBLED TIMESFrom the bestselling author of The Story of the British Isles in…
Want to Read $ 10.99"It is all around us now, in one God-forsaken territory after another. Blood sacrifice in the name of a better future. Only the dead like Tollund Man have seen the end of it. All we seem to have learned so far is that such killing never ends, never will."-Neil Oliver, Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past
"It is all around us now, in one God-forsaken territory after another. Blood sacrifice in the name of a better future. Only the dead like Tollund Man have seen the end of it. All we seem to have learned so far is that such killing never ends, never will."-Neil Oliver, Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past
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