Stonehenge Complete - Couverture souple

Chippindale, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500289662 ISBN 13 : 9780500289662

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

This newly revised and enlarged fourth edition of Christopher Chippindale's prize-winning classic account brings the story of Stonehenge right up to date. It describes in two new chapters the startling ideas and insights of the latest field research. In a radical reinterpretation, Stonehenge with its cold rocks is seen as the place of the dead, and another site - over the horizon - as the place of the living, built in wood, and complete with houses and paved ways. In another theory, Stonehenge is a place of healing. Alongside the quest to understand Stonehenge are the taxing practicalities of caring for a 4,000 years old site that was never designed to cope with a million visitors a year, and how to preserve the monument for millennia to come. `It would not be easy to name a better guide' - The Guardian `Splendidly illustrated ... Will for years to come be a standard reference work' - The Times Literary Supplement `All you ever wanted to know about Stonehenge...is catalogued in this humorously written, beautifully illustrated book' - The Economist

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Chippindale is Reader in Archaeology and curator for British collections at the Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500289662
• ISBN 13: 9780500289662
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 4
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible