Alexandra Villing: TROY MYTH AND REALITY W13 [2019] hardback OCCUL yellow-and-green afternoon

yellow-and-green afternoon

But each of the glossy emporiums is fuelled by the dangerous world of the plant hunters - daring adventurers sent into uncharted lands in search of untold wonders to grace England's finest gardens

and shatters

' Angie Thomas

From the golden beaches on the Mediterranean coast to the wild peaks of the Pyrenees

Alexandra Villing: TROY MYTH AND REALITY W13 [2019] hardback OCCUL yellow-and-green afternoonTroy is familiar to us from the timeless and epic tales of Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid. These have been retold over the centuries by writers from Chaucer to Shakespeare to Madeline Miller and Rick Riordan, and enacted by stars such as Elizabeth Taylor and Brad Pitt. But how much do we really know about the city of Troy; its storytellers, myth, actual location or legacy? In this richly illustrated book, the story of Troy is told through a new