{"product_id":"lost-realms-histories-of-britain-from-the-romans-to-the-vikings","title":"Lost Realms : Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings","description":"\u003ch2\u003e'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages ... [Williams] is just brilliant at bringing them to light' Rory Stewart on The Rest is Politics\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003ch2\u003eFrom the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is the world of Arthur and Urien; of the Picts and Britons and Saxon migration; of magic and war, myth and miracle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn Lost Realms Thomas Williams uncovers the forgotten origins and untimely demise of Britain's ancient kingdoms: lands that hover in the twilight between history and fable, whose stories hum with gods and miracles, with giants and battles and ruin. Why did some realms - like Wessex, Northumbria and Gwynedd - prosper while others fell? And how did their communities adapt to the catastrophic changes of their age? Drawing on Britain ' s ancient landscape and bringing together new archaeological revelations with the few precious fragments of surviving written sources, Williams spectacularly rebuilds a lost past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Lost Realms : Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings","offer_id":44842087022789,"sku":null,"price":29.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-00-817198-8.jpg?v=1750734878","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/lost-realms-histories-of-britain-from-the-romans-to-the-vikings","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}