The Old Straight Track: Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones - Couverture souple

Watkins, Alfred

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9781781856628: The Old Straight Track: Its Mounds, Beacons, Moats, Sites and Mark Stones

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ISBN 10 : 1781856621 ISBN 13 : 9781781856628

Editeur : Head of Zeus, 2015

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside. First published in 1925, THE OLD STRAIGHT TRACK described the author's theory of 'ley lines', pre-Roman pathways consisting of aligned stone circles and prehistoric mounds, used by our Neolithic ancestors. Watkins's ideas have intrigued and inspired generations of readers - from historians to hill walkers, and from amateur archaeologists to new-age occultists. This edition of THE OLD STRAIGHT TRACK, with a substantial introduction by Robert Macfarlane, will appeal to all who treasure the history, contours and mystery of Britain's ancient landscapes.

Revue de presse :

A remarkable book ... Alfred Watkins [was a] visionary who saw beyond the bounds of his time'. --John Michell

Watkins re-enchanted the English landscape, investing it with fresh depth and detail, prompting new ways of looking and new reasons to walk'. --Robert Macfarlane

'Robert Macfarlane in his introduction to this new edition [...] is respectful, finding new relevance in Watkin's writing. The result is to fold Watkins, the counter-cultural mystic-modernist, into the cultural landscape, laying the track for others to follow'. --tls

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