Surviving the Iron Age

by Peter Firstbrook

Presents a companion to the BBC television series in which seventeen volunteers live as in the Iron Age.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Historical

Hardcover

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

Peter Firstbrook is author of The Voyage of the Matthew (about the explorer John Cabot), Lost on Everest (about George Mallory), and The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family. He worked for the BBC for twenty-five years as a television producer, director and executive producer, specializing in historical documentaries. He has won over thirty international awards, including on two occasions the Royal Television Society award for best documentary. He divides his time between London and the Isle of Wight.

Reviews

[John Mallinder · Rating 5 out of 5]

Companion to the TV series. Great visuals and well laid out. What would happen if you took a group of (semi skilled) modern humans and made them live in the Iron Age ? They'd get food poisoning from under-cooking, why - because they hadn't learned to live with the land and nature's cycles. Some fell by the wayside. Its hard living without modern luxuries on a basic diet. I'm a Jungle, Get This Pseudo-Celebrity Out Of My Back Passage; contrived drong-pile this is not.