title: Beyond Finisterrae Book I: To The End of Earth (Volume 1)
author: Rae Lorainne
description: Rae Lorainne lives to Teach Love Only. She boldly dares to believe that an artistic lifestyle can satisfy her luxuriant taste and maybe even help nourish the spirit of humanity.
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  _For my sister Alison_
  
  Contents
  
  Protohistory
  
  PART ONE
  
  1\. The Road from the Ends of the Earth
  
  2\. News of the Iron Age
  
  3\. The Mediolanum Mystery, I
  
  4\. The Mediolanum Mystery, II
  
  5\. Down the Meridian
  
  PART TWO
  
  6\. The Size of the World
  
  7\. The Druidic Syllabus, I: Elementary
  
  8\. The Druidic Syllabus, II: Advanced
  
  PART THREE
  
  9\. Paths of the Gods
  
  10\. The Forest and Beyond
  
  11\. Cities of Middle Earth
  
  12\. The Gods Victorious
  
  PART FOUR
  
  13\. The Poetic Isles
  
  14\. The Four Royal Roads
  
  15\. The End of Middle Earth
  
  16\. Return of the Druids
  
  Epilogue: A Traveller’s Guide to Middle Earth
  
  Chronology
  
  Notes
  
  Works Cited
  
  General Index
  
  Geographical Index
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  Permissions Acknowledgements
  
  Protohistory
  
  The idea that became this book arrived one evening like an unwanted
  
  visitor. It clearly expected to stay for a long time, and I knew that its
  
  presence in my home would be extremely compromising. Trea