The Templars Secret Island by Erling Haagensen, Henry Lincoln
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- Pub. Date: February 2002
- Sales Rank: 261,128
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: February 2002
- Format: Paperback
- Sales Rank: 261,128
- ISBN-13: 9780760732069
- ISBN: 076073206X
Synopsis
The Templars' Secret Island describes the intriguing links between mediaeval Scandinavia, France and Jerusalem. How men of influence such as Bernard of Claircaux, the Templar Grand Maser Bertrand de Blanchefort and a Danish bishop all worked together in the twelfth century to preserve a fantastic secret. The trail has spanned Europe and has led as far as ancient Palestine. A further twist came when the authors found that in 1911 a forgotten Swedish-led expedition had burrowed beneath the City of David, echoing the activities of the fables Knights Templar, almost eight hundred years earlier. What that expedition unearthed forms a bridge to the island two thousand miles away.
The Bornholm churches also show a brilliant approach to one of the great - and still unsolved - mathematical puzzles of antiquity, which has taxed the ingenuity of scholars such as Descartes through the centuries.
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The Templars Secret Islandby chevalier545
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August 19, 2009: This book contains some excellent research and factual conclusions about the Knight Templars not previously published. I recommend it!
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February 16, 2008: The author presents some very interesting history regarding the Knights Templar, linking them to his home of Bornholm Island. He also seems to be a Geometry fanatic who believes he has discovered that the Knights left a secret 'geometry teaching aid' in the arrangement of churches on the Island, and that he has finally found the key to that secret. A strange and complex treatise which may have suffered in its translation from Danish to English.
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