Howard Reid Arthur, The Dragon King:
the Barbaric Roots Of Britain’s Greatest Legend
Headline 2001
Howard Reid apparently has all the right academic credentials – an unpublished PhD thesis in anthropology based on research among hunter-gatherers in Brazil – and, as well as practical experience from living with Tuaregs in North Africa, he has made documentaries about ancient civilisations for the BBC, Channel 4 and the Public Broadcasting Service in the USA. So you would expect him not only to declaim knowledgeably with his Indiana Jones hat on but also to discuss with scholarly rigour wearing his mortar board.
Not a bit of it. Continue reading “An idiosyncratic reading of Arthurian origins”
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