11th October 2010, 10:52 PM
vulpes Wrote:In what way is Francis Pryor not sensible?He was not sensible when he wrote Britain AD, well, except insofar as making money may be deemed to be sensible. As long as he sticks to his expertise in prehistory then he is ok, but the moment he steps out of that period he immediately makes a fool of himself. Rather than write all the issues with the book out longhand, I'll just point you to this review in The Heroic Age. I think it covers the main points.
'Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder.'