The Discovery of King Arthur by GEOFFREY ASHE

Doubleday, 1985. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Doubleday, 1985. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Guild Publishing, January 1985. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. unmarked copy

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

London, UK: Book Club Associates, 1985. Book. Fair to Good. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, first edition, 494g, 226pgs. Attempts to find the truth about the man (if any) behind the legend of King Arthur. Book is in fair to good condition with mild general wear and tear. Dust jacket is in fair condition with moderate shelf wear, otherwise no other pre-loved markings. Photo featured is of actual book. Purchase more than 1 item and save money with combined postage. And if you can't find the title your looking for - why not ask us direct. With over 30,000 books in stock we can't list them all!!..

Guild Publishing, London, 1985. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. In this book, the distinguished scholar Geoffrey Ashe offers convincing proof that King Arthur not only existed, but was more like the Arthur of legend than historians have previously suspected. In this study, drawing upon myriad sources both literary & historical, Ashe traces the legend of Arthur to its roots in the 12th-century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He then illustrates that a great deal of Geoffrey's history, which set out ot depict events & persons of 5th-century Britain, was based on fact. After challenging previous assumptions about where Arthur's court & other remnants can be found, Ashe identifies the "real" King Arthur & provides powerful evidence to support his theory. Riothamus, an actual 5th-century British monarch, is the figure whom Ashe painstakingly identifies. But his study also investigates the histories behind other Arthurian phenomena, such as the key concepts of… Read More

London: Debrett's Peerage Ltd., 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 9x6x1. Signed by Author(s). Small tears to dustjacket. Signed by author.

London: Debrett's Peerage, 1985-02-28. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x1. Corners of boards a little bumped and rubbed. Inside D/J has some spotting. Darkening to D/J with some rubbing.