Grail Knights of North America: On the Trail of the Grail Legacy in Canada and the United States

US: Dundurn, 1998. Paperback. Good. A decade ago, Michael Bradley published the Canadian bestseller, Holy Grail Across the Atlantic (Hounslow Press, 1988), presenting the astounding evid ence that a European settlement in Canada had been established in Nova Scot ia ninety-four years before Columbus and ninety-nine years before John Cabo t. Incredibly, mediaeval documents and maps showed that this settlement had been founded by refugee Knights Templar from Scotland - knights who had be en created for the sole purpose of guarding the Holy Grail. Bradley present ed evidence that these Grail-believing religious refugees and their knightl y protectors had been instrumental in discovering, settling, and influencin g the development of New France and, later, the fledgling American Republic . The book was automatically ridiculed by conventional North American histori ans, while at the same time serving as the model for European works (e.g. T he Sword and the Grail by Britain's Andrew Sinclair). Michael Bradley's inv estigation stimulated some serious professional and academic researchers to join his quest to find further evidence of the Knights Templar in Canada a nd the United States. Now, in 1998, comes the publication of the long-awaited sequel to Holy Grai l Across the Atlantic - Grail Knights of North America. Realizing from mediaeval documents that the initial Nova Scotia refuge of AD 1398 must have harboured many Grail believers, and that the secret colony must have expanded, Bradley began to trace evidence of Grail Knights from Nova Scotia, through New Brunswick to the St. Lawrence River, and on to the Great Lakes as far as Niagara, New York State, and central Pennsyl.