A Guide to the Stone Circles of Britain, Ireland and Brittany Paperback / softback
by Aubrey Burl
Paperback / softback
Description
This practical and knowledgeable guidebook deals comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany.
This new edition includes a section on "Druidical" circles, romantic creations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. "This book is not only an elegant and practical guide, it is also the best single-volume study of this extraordinary phenomenon, embracing 500 monuments from Shetland to Brittany. . . . Confident, erudite, pleasurable, this volume can be recommended as travel guide, archaeology, literature, and sheer good company."-Ian Sheperd, British Archaeology"This is a wonderful book and is a must for anyone remotely interested in things megalithic."-Paul Walsh, Archaeology Ireland
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages, 70 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:04/11/2005
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- ISBN:9780300114065
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:276 pages, 70 b-w illus.
- Publisher:Yale University Press
- Publication Date:04/11/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9780300114065