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Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain

By James Canton

Book information

Publisher
William Collins
Year
2017
ISBN
0008175209, 9780008175207
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
13 MB (13295245 bytes)
Pages
344\0
Topic
History
Time added
2018-11-22 03:21:36

Description

Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, and a lost Roman road. He ponders the features of the natural world that occupied ancient minds: the night sky, shooting stars, the rising and setting sun. Wandering to the furthest reaches of the islands, he finds an undeciphered standing stone north of Aberdeen and follows the first footsteps on the edge of a long-lost Ice Age land in the North Sea. As Canton walks the modern terrain, slowly understanding the ancient signs that lie within and beneath it, he weaves a gentle tale of discovery, showing how, beyond the superficial differences of life-style and culture, the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles were much closer to the present-day one than we might imagine.

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