Christopher Chippindale

Stonehenge Complete

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson / Thames and Hudson Ltd
• 4., überarb. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 190mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 1040g
• ISBN-13: 9780500289662
• ISBN-10: 0500289662
• Artikelnr.: 34505764

Inhaltsangabe

1. To the Medieval Eye - 2. In the age of Queen Elizabeth - 3. During the English Renaissance - 4. Dr Aubrey and Dr Stukeley - 5. A Delusion of Druids - 6. The Sublime and the Romantic - 7. The Making of Ancient Wiltshire - 8. Of Age, Evolution and Astronomy - 9. Victorian Visitors - 10. The Proprietor and His Public - 11. 1900 and After - 12. The Destruction of Half Stonehenge - 13. Wessex to Mycenae, and Back - 14. The Moon Behind the Megaliths - 15. Alternative Visions - 16. A Future for Stonehenge - 17. Stonehenge: A Basis of Knowledge - Visiting Stonehenge

Rezensionen

'All you ever wanted to know about Stonehenge ... is catalogued in this humorously written, beautifully illustrated book' - The Economist