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Paul Hamlyn - The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited, 1972. BOOK: Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: All races without exception have possessed a mythology. To trace the outline of the world's mythology is to trace also the pattern of man's development. There has been no age, no civilisation that has not probed the mysteries of life and sought to explain them by the graphic means of myth. The preoccupying questions have remained constant - how was the world created, what forces govern man's life, and how best can he make them favourable to him? The answers have been as varied as the societies that have produced them, ranging from the primitive to the near-sophisticated. In a book of generous proportions, Pierre Grimal's twenty-three authors survey the myths of the world's principal societies with perception. They analyse the… Read More