title: Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings
author:  Jean Manco 
description: An interesting account of the peopling of Europe that attempts to integrate archaeology, history, and linguistics with the latest genetic evidence. . . . Recommended.<br /> - <strong><em>Choice</em></strong><br /><br />The armchair route to uncovering the mysteries of who we really are.<br /> - <strong><em>Woman Around Town</em></strong><br /><br />Richly illustrated . . . this highly readable volume outlines a new paradigm in European archaeology and pre-history and tackles the central question of the meaning of European identity, genetic and cultural.<br /> - <strong><em>ProtoView</em></strong>
zlib_text: MANON LESCAUT
  1
  MANON LESCAUT
  
  MANON LESCAUT
  2
  I
  Why did he love her?  Curious fool, be still! Is human love the fruit
  of human will?
  BYRON.
   Just about six months before my departure for Spain, I first met the
  Chevalier des Grieux.  Though I rarely quitted my retreat, still the
  interest I felt in my child's welfare induced me occasionally to undertake
  short journeys, which, however, I took good care to abridge as much as
  possible.
  I was one day returning from Rouen, where I had been, at her request,
  to attend a cause then pending before the Parliament of Normandy,
  respecting an inheritance to which I had claims derived from my maternal
  grandfather.  Having taken the road by Evreux, where I slept the first
  night, I on the following day, about dinner-time, reached Passy, a distance
  of five or six leagues.  I was amazed, on entering this quiet town, to see
  all the inhabitants in commotion.  They were pouring from their houses
  in crowds, towards the gate of a small inn, immediately before