num_pages: 165
description: 'Human beings have always been mythmakers.' So begins Karen Armstrong's concise yet compelling investigation into myth. Myths have helped us to make sense of the universe since Palaeolithic times.
language: English
title: A Short History of Myth
titlecomplete: A Short History of Myth (Volume 1-4)
genres: Anthropology, Historical, Religion, Philosophy, Spirituality, Psychology, Nonfiction, Mythology, Folklore, History
ratings_count: 5784
publisher: Canongate Books Ltd