Stonehenge Where Atlantis Died Author:Harry Harrison, Leon Stover This was the world. — The blue waters of the Mediterranean were at the heart of it. The world was the islands in this sea and the lands that ranged its shores. Journey was by water, across the sea, and up the rivers of fresh water that fed it. — This was the world where bold warriors battled with bronze swords. Without bronze the... more »re could be no warriors -- just as without tin there could be no bronze. Copper alone was too soft to make a warrior's weapon. Therefore no journey was too difficult, no effort too great, to obtain the tin that transformed the abundant and maleable copper into noble bronze.
Only the boldest warriors dared to voyage to the ends of the world, to venture up the rivers to find this tin. Only the bravest dared to go beyond the land-rimmed sea, out though the narrow straits into the storm-filled Atlantic beyond. To sail north in the cold fog, to the icy island in the ocean where, with heroic effort, the tin could be found.
This was the world one thousand and five hundred years before the birth of Christ.« less