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METAGEUM '07
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Conference Session: Europe's Lost Civilization
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At Metageum '07: Europe's Lost Civilization
At the Metageum conference, Peter Marshall will speak on the lost civilisation that created the megalithic monuments of Europe.
About Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall is a historian,travel writer, philosopher and poet. He has written fifteen highly acclaimed books which are being translated into thirteen different languages. An occasional broadcaster, his circumnavigation of Africa was made into a 6-part TV series and his voyage around Ireland into a BBC Radio series. He is now a member of the Society of Authors and an elected fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Born on 23 August 1946 in Bognor Regis, England, a stone's throw from the sea, Marshall became a boarder at Steyning Grammar School in the Sussex Downs. He then sailed around the world as a purser cadet in the P & O-Orient Shipping Company before teaching English in Senegal, West Africa. He returned to England to take a B.A.Hons. in English, French and Spanish from London University and an M.A. and a D.Phil. in the History of Ideas from Sussex University. He has taught philosophy and literature at several British universities and art colleges.
In the 1970s Marshall was a founder member of a libertarian community in Buckinghamshire called Redfield. He went in 1980 with Jenny Zobel to Snowdonia in North Wales for a winter to finish his first book and stayed on for 21 years, first living in a remote cottage in the mountains and then down by the sea. He has two children, Emily and Dylan, and now lives by the River Tamar in Devon with the photographer Elizabeth Ashton Hill.
In a BBC interview, Johnnie Walker observed:'Peter Marshall is a real-life Indiana Jones...what a life!'