*HBP Deluxe Book Cover - Spoiler Alert

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This is the book I have ordered.  My understanding is that the extra 
pages are probably illustrations before each chapter. If that is 
true than there will be 34 chapters.  As for the back cover I found 
the following from a Celtic website that reminded me of the picture 
on the cover and bear in mind this was written in 39 AD.
I found this hauntingly remarkable. As Cunliffe quotes Lucan (Roman 
poet, A.D. 39-65) in his poem Pharsalia:

A grove there was untouched by men's hands from ancient times, whose 
interlacing boughs enclosed a space of darkness and cold shade, and 
banished the sunlight from above . . .
On those boughs . . . birds feared to perch; in those coverts wild 
beasts would not lie down; no wind ever bore down upon that wood, 
nor thunderbolt hurled from black clouds; the trees, even when they 
spread their leaves to no breeze, rustled of themselves.
Water, also, fell there in abundance from dark springs. The images 
of the gods grim and rude were uncouth blocks formed of felled tree-
trunks. Their mere antiquity and the ghastly hue of the rotten 
timber struck terror. . . .
Legend also told that often the subterranean hollows quaked and 
bellowed, that yew trees fell down and rose again, that the glare of 
conflagrations came from trees that were not on fire, and that 
serpents twined and glided round their stems.
The people never resorted thither to worship at close quarters but 
left the place to the gods. For, when the sun is in mid-heaven or 
dark night fills the sky, the priest himself dreads their approach 
and fears to surprise the lord of the grove.
Shivery! Two thousand years old, and it's lost none of its power to 
conjure up the mystery of an ancient Celtic sacred grove.

Happy Reading, Shalimar