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Gwyn A. Williams.
Madoc: The Making of a Myth (The Legend of the Welsh Discovery of America).
Publisher: Oxford U.P., 1987 (previously issued by Eyre Methuen, 1979).
ISBN 0192851780;
ISBN-13: 9780192851789.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Size: 128x194x16mm.
Page count: xiv,226pp inc. 1 map, plus 8 pages of plates, all monochrome.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some wear on the covers and creasing to the spine; pages a little yellowed; text appears to be free of marking.


This item £12.50
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Weight without packaging: 186g.

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Explores the legend, originally promulgated by the Elizabethan court, that some three hundred years before Columbus, Madoc, son of Price Owain Gwynedd, sailed to America and settled, leaving behind him a lost tribe of white, Welsh-speaking Indians…


See also | Wales | America | Medievalism |

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