Who built the megaliths and why? What light do they throw on our origins and ourselves? To answer these questions, Peter Marshall sailed with photographer Liz Ashton Hill in a small boat from Scotland to Malta , visiting all the major megalithic sites on the way. The illustrated talk will recount the exciting 4000-mile voyage and argue that there was a sophisticated pan-European civilization in megalithic times linked by the sea.
Peter Marshall is a historian, philosopher, travel writer and poet. He has written fifteen highly acclaimed books, including Demanding the Impossible, The Philosopher’s Stone, Riding the Wind and Europe’s Lost Civilization, which are being translated into fifteen different languages. His circumnavigation of Africa was made into a TV series and his voyage around Ireland into a radio series. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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