Yale University Press
The Last of the Celts
Key Metrics
- Marcus Tanner
- Yale University Press
- Paperback
- 9780300115352
- 8.9 X 5.82 X 1.07 inches
- 1.23 pounds
- Social Science > Anthropology - Cultural & Social
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Travelling throughout the remote Celtic world, award-winning author Marcus Tanner describes the relentless pressure on Celtic communities to assimilate and warns that a distinct Celtic identity may not survive for another generation--a sobering loss that would impoverish us all.
Tanner has concluded we must resign ourselves to the fact that Celticism is done, over, finis. He proves it in a very good and special book that every prodigal and true Celt should read and try to prove wrong.--Malachy McCourt, Washington Post Book World
Lively. . . . [A] thoughtful book.--Publishers Weekly
An exceptional journey into the remarkable cultural history of the Celtic people. . . . [Tanner's] experience reads like a travelogue and an insightful history with an emphasis on cultural heritage.--Raymond L. Flynn, Boston Sunday Herald
[An] angry, elegiac and meticulously researched book.--Christian Century
Author Bio
Marcus studied theology at Cambridge before becoming the Balkans correspondent for The Independent from 1988 to 1994.
He returned to London to become the Assistant Foreign Editor of The Independent from 1996 to 2000 before leaving to write books on Ireland and on the Celts and to work briefly in Kyrgyzstan.
He has worked full time for Balkan Insight since 2006, while continuing to write leader-page articles twice a month for The Independent.
His published books are: “Ticket to Latvia”, Dent & Weidenfeld, “Croatia, a Nation Forged in War”, “Ireland’s Holy Wars”, “The Last of the Celts” and “The Raven King, Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library”, all published by Yale University Press.
He edited Marija Mestrovic’s “Ivan Mestrovic, The making of a Master”, published by Stacey International.
He lives in London, U.K.
Source: Balkan Investigative Reporting Network
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