The Celts by Nora Chadwick (Pelican Paperback 1977).

Some marks and wear & tear. Some loose pages, see photos for condition

Nora Chadwick aCollic scholar of international repute describes in this Pelican the rise and spread of the Celts and their arrival in the British Isles in about the eighth century

B.C. Her study of their history, religion, art and literature reveals those individualistic and imaginative qualities which have contributed so much to the world we live in today.

Their progress down the high.road of history is displayed in the light of the best modern scholarship, with attention paid not only to the development and vicissitudes of the Celtic nations in Britain and Ireland, but to their creative activities in the visual arts and literature, their distinctive contribution to the art of life, and their age-old and now resurgent skills in the craft of political survival' - The Times Literary Supplement

'In matter and range it fittingly crowns a writing lifetime of over fifty years in the service of Celtic studies' - Scotsman

The cover shows the Ardagh Chalice, eighth century, in the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (photograph Erich Lessing - Magnum Photos)