CBA Bestselling Book Up for Award
The CBA’s recently published and highly acclaimed book Europe’s Lost World: The rediscovery of Doggerland has been put forward as one of the nominations for ‘Book of the Year’ at the CA Awards.
The winner will be announced during the ‘Archaeology 2010’ conference on 27 February and voting is still open for you to cast your vote.*
Europe’s Lost World details the story of ‘Doggerland’, the enigmatic country which once linked the Yorkshire coast with a stretch of Continental Europe from Denmark to Normandy but which now lies beneath the North Sea.
It has been selling fast and currently sits in the ‘Bestsellers in Maritime Archaeology’ chart on Amazon.co.uk. The book has been widely praised in reviews in both academic and general publications, including British Archaeology magazine, Cambridge Archaeological Journal and My London Your London.
Co-author Simon Fitch, will be talking about the project behind the book at the CBA’s ‘Archaeology under the Sea’ day school at the British Academy, London, on 22 February, in a talk entitled Landscapes under the sea – Doggerland and modelling submerged prehistoric landscapes. Tickets are still available for the event, so visit the WGM web page for more information, including booking details.
Europe’s Lost World can be purchased online and from all good bookshops.
- Author: Vincent Gaffney, Simon Fitch, David Smith
- Date of publication: 2009
- Series number: RR160
- ISBN: 9781902771779
- Price: £15
* Voting is only open to subscribers to CA magazine. Vote now.
