The Key - Softcover

Cohane, John Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805205276 ISBN 13: 9780805205275

Publisher: Schocken Books, 1976

Synopsis

In tracing the origins of Irish place-names, Cohane stumbled on material that led to a theory of man's prehistory more daring than that proposed in Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki. They Key is the exciting record of the search that enabled him to follow the ancient migrations of a Semitic people to every corner of the earth. John Philip Cohane's The Key is one of the most facinating books this reviewer has read in a long while. By using six key words which appear in place names from Europe to the South Pacific, the author sets out to prove that the Semitic people travelled all over the face of the globe long before Columbus discovered the New World..The idea seems fantastic, but coupled with the obvious similarities in palce names in these and other widely scattered parts of the world, it certainly provides food for though..Mr. Cohane's owkr although scholarly in content, is thoroughly entertaining and of interest to even the most casual reader. Historians and linguists will be shocked at first by The Key. But a few will see that Mr. Cohane is pointing to something real lying beyond the limits of their former vision, and awating their efforts to bring it into better focus and perspective. A graduate of Yale University, John Philip Cohane had a successful career in advertising in New York until moving to Ireland to devote his time to writing and working on archeaological digs with the Irish government.

Edition details

• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805205276
• ISBN 13: 9780805205275
• Binding: Paperback