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New York : Walker & Co., 2002.
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Currently the best-selling book at Stonehenge itself, this is one of a new series of mathemagical and ancient traditions titles printed on highest grade recycle papers with no colours or glosses. The covers are matt and leathery, and printed in black and white inks to give an antique effect. Stonehenge intrigues everyone, regardless of age or country - this is the first neat little book to attempt to explain it. The extraordinary age of Stonehenge, contemporary with the Great Pyramid, encourages the reader to reconsider the peoples who once inhabited the British Isles.
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LibraryThing member Carmenere
I am familiar with Stonehenge but yearn to know so much more. I thought I could cheat a bit and discover something new in this little book which covers a different attribute of these ancient stones on every other page followed by an historic drawing of the site. Of particular interest were the
Robin Heath is short on details in Stonehenge but he whets the appetite for further discovery and thought.
I would recommend it to………………….someone who wants to get a very basic understanding of Stonehenge
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sections “Erecting the Stones”, “The Lunation Triangle" and “Rolling Stones” which surmises how stones weighing approximately 50 tons each were brought to Salisbury Plain from 20 and 150 miles away. It amazes this reader how people from this period, or prior to, constructed barrows (mounds) in which they buried their dead so similar to the Serpent Mound in southern Ohio or the similarity of Stonehenge’s ceremonial avenue to the Mayan sacbe which leads to the sacred cenote in Chichen Itza. In a profound way it unites humans throughout the world and across time.Robin Heath is short on details in Stonehenge but he whets the appetite for further discovery and thought.
I would recommend it to………………….someone who wants to get a very basic understanding of Stonehenge
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0802713858 / 9780802713858
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