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rylek:

--- Quote from: Laura ---I'm not sure why it is so expensive.  One thing I sort of picked up on was that Wilkens sold the rights to the original publisher who did a run or two and then it went out of print.  So, Wilkens, having sold the rights, couldn't do anything about it except to come out with a different edition and self-publish at some considerable expense.
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I'm wondering whether this new edition is somehow different and whether it would be better to get the older version? I know this is a really small detail but it crossed my mind and I had to ask:)

Psyche:

--- Quote from: wiki ---Cádiz would match the description of Ithaca; There is in the land of Ithaca a certain harbour of Phorcys, the old man of the sea, and at its mouth two projecting headlands sheer to seaward, but sloping down on the side toward the harbour.
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It is interesting that a Cadiz newspaper just reported (4-28-12) the following:


--- Quote from: google translation ---http://es.sott.net/articles/show/13372-Silencio-arqueologico-o-que-esconden-en-Cadiz-

Archeological silence

THE history of any city, Cádiz for example, is rewritten every time the archaeologists dive underground to rescue a finding of value. Archaeology is the truest expression of the time machine ever invented, his work, thorough and accurate, to discover how our ancestors were, how they lived, what they spent or how they died, vital information to know our deepest roots. It is so fundamental to the history of a city, such as for Cadiz, that sometimes it is not understood the official silence that usually surrounds a finding, to the extent that archaeologists are prohibited to make statements to the media, they who are the ones who know, if only to provide an initial assessment of their research. It is a silence that seems excessive in a matter which is unquestionably of public and unequivocal historical and cultural interest.
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dantem:

--- Quote from: Psyche on April 30, 2012, 01:32:20 PM ---...the official silence that usually surrounds a finding, to the extent that archaeologists are prohibited to make statements to the media, they who are the ones who know, if only to provide an initial assessment of their research. It is a silence that seems excessive in a matter which is unquestionably of public and unequivocal historical and cultural interest.
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Had a look over those Spanish towns where Columbus is said to have arranged his trip to America. In a town near Cadiz, Palos De La Frontera, the it.wiki says that the surrounding land is very ancient and archaeologists have found presence of Dolmens, i.e. Paleolithic civilizations. Palos was also used as a dock by Columbus.

Now Cadiz is told to be far more ancient than Palos, and Columbus is told to be an 'Initiate'. I just wonder about the possible connections here  :cool2:

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