The Key

Cohane, John Philip

Published by Crown Publishers (1969), New York, 1969

About this Item

23x16cm, 288 pp, Some small stains to front flyleaves. In a somewhat rubbed dustwrapper. A theory of prehistoric Semitic migrations based on place-name studies. [".while working on a book about the Irish, John Philip Cochrane kept reencountering certain key words & place-names that looked to him as if they had been brought into Ireland and Great Britain from the Mediterranean in prehistoric times. Moreover, those key words and names seemed to be of Semitic origin.before the Egyptian, Greek, Phoenician and Carthaginian eras, two major Semitic migrations or dispersions took place.worldwide in scope.Mr. Cochrane links together through certain key names and words the baffling complex of Avebury and Stonehenge in England, the Homeric civilizations of Mycenae and Crete, the ruined Aztec and Mayan cultures, and the vanished splendors of the Far East." - dustwrapper blurb]. Some rubbing. Light page-edge soil. Good., Dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # 009483

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Key

Publisher: Crown Publishers (1969), New York

Publication Date: 1969

Binding: orig.cloth

Illustrator: Textual photo illustrations

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included