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The Hague headland, at the northwest tip of the Cotentin Peninsula: Take a close look at it, the place is a prehistoric fortress which was a staging post at the time of the tin route used by Mediterranean traders in times now forgotten. And Flaman-Ruet takes the reader on a journey throughout history in which he shares, page after page, his search and his passion for discovering who Herakles, Zeus, Athena, Phaeton really were; how and why the Odyssey really took place in Britain and the Channel Islands where Ulysses came to procure cassiterite (tin ore) required for the production of bronze. No other work shows more clearly the broad outline of a fantastic story which took place at the dawn of our era, which still contributes to shape our history, our traditions, our civil and religious life. Now it is clear why Ulysse came to the English Channel and why the Celtic Cross belonged to both the druids of Gaul and of Britain. TEXT TRANSLATED FROM FRENCH BY HUBERT GUIDON AND PROOF READ BY JUDITH DIXON.