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Stonehenge
Rosemary Hill
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Description for Stonehenge
Paperback. Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. This title provides wide-ranging history of the megalithic structure, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HDDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides the most wide-ranging and expansive history of the megalithic structure to date, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today.
Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides the most wide-ranging and expansive history of the megalithic structure to date, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today.
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
216g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861978806
SKU
V9781861978806
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About Rosemary Hill
Rosemary Hill is a writer and historian. She has written two prize-winning books, God's Architect, a life of A.W.N. Pugin and Stonehenge. She is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books, a fellow the Society of Antiquaries and the Royal Society of Literature and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She lives in London and is ... Read more
Reviews for Stonehenge
Her book is a treasure: stylish, thoughtful, miraculously condensed, and as full of knowledge as megalith is full of megalith
Sunday Times
She brings genuine originality to the cultural history of Stonehenge; nobody has until now considered it as literature, poetry and art, in this comprehensive way
Times Literary Supplement
A fascinating overview
Time Out ... Read more
Sunday Times
She brings genuine originality to the cultural history of Stonehenge; nobody has until now considered it as literature, poetry and art, in this comprehensive way
Times Literary Supplement
A fascinating overview
Time Out ... Read more