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Gwyn A. Williams.
Madoc: The Making of a Myth (The Legend of the Welsh Discovery of America).
Oxford U.P., 1987 (previously issued by Eyre Methuen, 1979).
ISBN 0192851780;
ISBN-13: 9780192851789.
Paperback, perfect bound.
128x194x16mm.
xiv,226pp inc 1 map, plus 8 pages of plates, all moncohrome.
English.
Fair condition: some wear to the covers and creasing to the spine; pages a little yellowed; text appears to be free of marking.This item £12.50
186g.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...
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