In this ground-breaking book the Gilroys here reveal a forgotten history of mediaeval European maritime contacts with Australia.
Learn of hitherto unknown accounts of British and mainland European Celtic mariners who found and settled Australia centuries before the Dark Ages, or the advent of the first Dutch explorers and Captain James Cook of the 17th & 18th centuries.
This book contains a wealth of photographic evidence, demonstrating 12th century landfalls of Scottish, Irish, Welsh mineral and gemstone-seeking colonists, and the megalithic stoneworks, settlement ruins, and thousands of stone inscriptions these ancient colonists left behind them, which speak of the daily lives of the settlers.
Read of the mediaeval European belief that the mysterious southern continent was the fabled ÒLand of the Holy GrailÓ and the accounts of Welsh Knights, Knights Templars, and other adventurers who sailed here in search of it.