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The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
Henry Lincoln
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Description for The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
Paperback. A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village which enables him to amass a fortune of. This tale begins with buried treasure and turns into a historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, and the Knights Templar. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: HBT; HRCA; HRCC2; HRQX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 110 x 39. Weight in Grams: 344.
A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret ... Read more
A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail quest leading back through cryptically coded parchments, secret societies, the Knights Templar, the Cathar heretics of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and a dynasty of obscure French kings deposed more than 1,300 years ago. The author's conclusions are persuasive: at the core is not material riches but a secret ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099503095
SKU
V9780099503095
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Ref
99-98
About Henry Lincoln
Michael Baigent graduated from Christchurch University, New Zealand. Richard Leigh followed up his degree from Tufts University, Boston, with postgraduate studies at the University of Chicago and Stony Brook New York State University. They are co-authors of The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail, The Messianic Legacy and The Temple and the Lodge. Henry Lincoln has been a writer for ... Read more
Reviews for The Holy Blood and The Holy Grail
One of the most controversial books of the 20th Century
U.P.I
Their quest for knowledge possesses all the ingredients of a classic 19th-Century mystery novel ... a book that will be hotly denounced and widely read
Financial Times
A book that cannot easily be dismissed
Neville Cryer
The Bible Society
Has all the ... Read more
U.P.I
Their quest for knowledge possesses all the ingredients of a classic 19th-Century mystery novel ... a book that will be hotly denounced and widely read
Financial Times
A book that cannot easily be dismissed
Neville Cryer
The Bible Society
Has all the ... Read more