Chris Gosden
Praise for The History of Magic
With his own magic touch, Chris Gosden brilliantly reveals the place of magic in human societies from the Ice Age to the present day in all inhabited continents, and shows how the exercise of magic was an everyday p ...
Professor David Abulafia, author of The Boundless Sea
Fascinating, original and excellent, written with both narrative flair and deep scholarship, this is a world history, from the steppes of Mongolia to the palaces of London and Paris from prehistory to today, told th ...
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem and The Romanovs
This is an extraordinary work of learning, written with an exhilarating lightness of touch. And it's flexible: you can read it from cover-to-cover, or just dip in - or both. Chris Gosden has traced the story of magi ...
Francis Pryor, author of Britain BC, Britain AD and The Fens
With his own magic touch, Chris Gosden brilliantly reveals the place of magic in human societies from the Ice Age to the present day in all inhabited continents, and shows how the exercise of magic was an everyday p ...
Professor David Abulafia, author of The Boundless Sea
Fascinating, original and excellent, written with both narrative flair and deep scholarship, this is a world history, from the steppes of Mongolia to the palaces of London and Paris from prehistory to today, told th ...
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem and The Romanovs
This is an extraordinary work of learning, written with an exhilarating lightness of touch. And it's flexible: you can read it from cover-to-cover, or just dip in - or both. Chris Gosden has traced the story of magi ...
Francis Pryor, author of Britain BC, Britain AD and The Fens
With his own magic touch, Chris Gosden brilliantly reveals the place of magic in human societies from the Ice Age to the present day in all inhabited continents, and shows how the exercise of magic was an everyday p ...
Professor David Abulafia, author of The Boundless Sea
Fascinating, original and excellent, written with both narrative flair and deep scholarship, this is a world history, from the steppes of Mongolia to the palaces of London and Paris from prehistory to today, told th ...
Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem and The Romanovs
This is an extraordinary work of learning, written with an exhilarating lightness of touch. And it's flexible: you can read it from cover-to-cover, or just dip in - or both. Chris Gosden has traced the story of magi ...
Francis Pryor, author of Britain BC, Britain AD and The Fens
