And the invitation is irresistible.”—San Francisco Chronicle “A remarkable book . . . In mood, color, atmosphere and characters, this is Charles Dickens reincarnated . . .

The Sumerians, the pragmatic and gifted people who preceded the Semites in the land first known as Sumer and later as Babylonia, created what was probably the first high civilization in the history of man, spanning the fifth to the second ...

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Includes maps of the U.S. Congressional districts.

The Way Through the Woods is the tenth novel in Colin Dexter's Oxford-set detective series.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.