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Author : Patrick Crampton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Stonehenge of the Kings written by Patrick Crampton and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Crampton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stonehenge of the Kings written by Patrick Crampton and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Bowden
Publisher : English Heritage
ISBN 13 : 9781848021167
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Stonehenge Landscape written by Mark Bowden and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2015 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonehenge is arguably the greatest prehistoric monument in western Europe; as a World Heritage Site it ranks in significance with such sites as the Acropolis of Athens, the Pyramids of Giza, Great Zimbabwe and Machu Picchu. Stonehenge sits at the heart of a landscape rich in other monuments and remains of the Neolithic period and Bronze Age that are also part of the World Heritage Site. Recent research by English Heritage's landscape archaeologists within the Stonehenge World Heritage Site has led to the identification of previously unknown sites and, perhaps even more importantly, the re-interpretation of known sites, including Stonehenge itself. This work has been carried out alongside recent and on-going independent research initiatives conducted by a number of academic institutions, involving international co-operation. This book presents the most significant findings of the English Heritage research and shows how it integrates with the results of work undertaken by colleagues in other research bodies. It traces human influence on the landscape from prehistoric times to the very recent past and presents an up-to-date synthesis of the results of recent fieldwork. It will be of value to anyone interested in Stonehenge itself, in megalithic monuments, in the Neolithic period and Bronze Age of Europe and in the historic evolution of chalkland landscapes.
Author : J. P. Reedman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908200952
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Stone Lord written by J. P. Reedman and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Southern Britain, the Giants Dance stands alone on the Great Plain. For 500 years its massive trilithons have remained unruled by any chief. With invaders from distant lands attacking Britain's shores to steal its precious tin, another king must be chosen-this is the Quest of the Merlin, high priest and shaman. He brings together U'thyr Pendraec, the Terrible Head, and the beautiful Y'gerna, wife of another man, and from them a child is born...a boy who can move a sacred stone and take the ancient dagger beneath...a boy who will become High King. With totems of power and an ancestral sword from the depths of the sacred lake, Ardhu Pendraec assumes the mantle of the Stone Lord, ruler of the Great Trilithon, protector of ancient Britain.... It is a time of gold-clad kings, a time of ritual and death, a time of Axe and Dagger. The beautiful Irish Princess, Fynavir, the White Phantom, is Ardhu's chosen Bride. The Breton Prince An'kelet, bearer of the Great Spear, is his right-hand man. Yet, Ardhu's 'Golden Age' is fleeting, with betrayal and deception rife by those closest to him - Morigau, his scheming half-sister, who releases the Boar T'orc to ravage the land...and Fynavir and An'kelet, whose forbidden passion may bring down all the young King has worked to attain. ***** Stone Lord is a book set in Britain's prehistory such as you've never read before.... Mixing fiction with the latest discoveries, intertwining myth with real archaeology, this is a novel of the prehistoric origins of the man we call KING ARTHUR ...
Author : Walter Arthur Cummins
Publisher : Salamander Books
ISBN 13 : 9781858337692
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (376 download)
Download or read book King Arthur's Place in Prehistory written by Walter Arthur Cummins and published by Salamander Books. This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the legend of King Arthur back to a connection with Stonehenge.
Author : Melissa Cleeman
Publisher : Learning Island
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wonder of Stonehenge: A 15-Minute Strange But True Tale written by Melissa Cleeman and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonehenge has been surrounded by mystery and wonder. There have always been questions about where these massive stones came from. How did they get there? Do they hail from a magical world of giants and wizards, or are they manmade? And then there's the most important question: what is their purpose? Many theories have been put forward to answer these questions. Even with all the evidence discovered, will we ever really know? Whatever the answers may be, there is one thing we know for sure: Stonehenge is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the world. The three most popular theories for why Stonehenge exists are: that it was a temple to worship ancient earth deities; that it was a giant calendar used to predict the sun and moon cycles; and, finally, that it was a sacred burial site. We will explore these three theories, diving into the evidence discovered for each possibility. Buckle up – this could get rocky! Find out about this strange, place and what it might have been used for in the fun, fact-filled, 15-minute book. Ages 8 and up. Educational Versions include exercises designed to meet Common Core standards. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Author : Morien O. Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Royal Winged Son of Stonehenge and Avebury written by Morien O. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leon Stover
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476611343
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Stonehenge City written by Leon Stover and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonehenge dates its Bronze Age phase to 2000 B.C. (but with a history stretching back yet another thousand years to Neolithic times). It attracts more than a million tourists a year, but is more than an array of great standing stones. Stonehenge was indeed its own city, the metropolitan center of a powerful kingdom heretofore unsuspected. That city is reconstructed by the author from the archaeological evidence—royal palace, banquet hall and tomb, among other buildings. Here (apart from Homer) begins European literature, derived from oral traditions. The entire book is richly illustrated.
Author : Melissa Cleeman
Publisher : Learning Island
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Wonders of Stonehenge written by Melissa Cleeman and published by Learning Island. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonehenge has been surrounded by mystery and wonder. There have always been questions about where these massive stones came from. How did they get there? Do they hail from a magical world of giants and wizards, or are they man-made? And then there's the most important question: what is their purpose? Many theories have been put forward to answer these questions. Even with all the evidence discovered, will we ever really know? Whatever the answers may be, there is one thing we know for sure: Stonehenge is one of the most famous prehistoric monuments in the world. The three most popular theories for why Stonehenge exists are: that it was a temple to worship ancient earth deities; that it was a giant calendar used to predict the sun and moon cycles; and, finally, that it was a sacred burial site. We will explore these three theories, diving into the evidence discovered for each possibility. Buckle up – this could get rocky! Find out about this strange, place and what it might have been used for in the fun, fact-filled, 15-minute book. Ages 8 and up. Reading Level: 6.9 LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Author : Caroline Malone
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198032684
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Stonehenge written by Caroline Malone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-06 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who built Stonehenge, and why is it one of the great mysteries of the prehistoric world? Here, Caroline Malone and Nancy Stone Bernard explore the myths, legends, and lies that have surrounded the ancient megaliths since the 12th century, when people believed that the sorcerer Merlin magically transported the stones to England. Readers learn why the druid myth still persists, how the structure was possibly constructed, and why the site was abandoned centuries after it was built. Including numerous sidebars, photographs, and diagrams on the archaeological history of the site and an engaging interview with archaeologist Caroline Malone, Stonehenge captures the imagination and curiosity of every budding archaeologist.
Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1780881207
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Inigo's Stones written by Tom Williamson and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a geologist rather than an art historian, Inigo’s Stones has a down to earth narrative which reveals Inigo Jones as a stone expert who dealt with masons to became a shrewd businessman, bringing Portland stones to London, and founding the modern Portland stone industry.Why are so many of London’s famous buildings, for example Buckingham Palace, the British Museum, the Bank of England, the government offices in Whitehall, faced with stones from the Isle of Portland, more than a hundred miles away? Until now the reasons that prompted famous architect Inigo Jones to bring blocks of this creamy limestone all the way by sea from the Royal Manor of Portland and thereby found the modern Portland stone industry had been something of a mystery.Working with archival research specialist James Derriman, geologist Tom Williamson has now reconstructed a scenario that solves the mystery. It is a complex tale that involves the marriage of Inigo’s chief Banqueting House mason Nicholas Stone to the daughter of the City Mason of booming Amsterdam, a nasty incident at the stone-loading pier at Portland and Inigo Jones’s struggles to pay stone workers from King James’s bankrupt Treasury.The new findings presented in Inigo’s Stones also see Inigo Jones studying Roman stones and marbles in Italy with Lord and Lady Arundel, initiating the first geological study of Stonehenge, searching for Portland stones big enough to replicate the Carystian marble monoliths of the Roman temple of Antoninus and Faustina in London and procuring Irish marbles to reflect imperial glory on his friend King Charles I. Inigo emerges not just as a Court propagandist and Vitruvian architect, but also as a resourceful businessman doing his best to cope at a time when the government was even shorter of cash than it is today.Reflecting on the questions raised by Inigo’s work for the Stuart kings, the author Tom Williamson extends the story to cover the whole field of how rulers have used stones and marbles to project imperial power. Focusing on the stones of three once-mighty empires, the Roman, the Mughal and the British, the book ends with a surprising twist.
Author : Thomas Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The History of Ireland from the Earliest Kings of that Realm, Down to Its Last Chief written by Thomas Moore and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miles Russell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445662752
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Arthur and the Kings of Britain written by Miles Russell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the text which introduced for the first time some of the key figures in British myth and legend.
Author : Nikolai Tolstoy
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445659549
Total Pages : 1241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Mysteries of Stonehenge written by Nikolai Tolstoy and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 1241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythic foundations of the world's greatest archaeological mystery.
Author : Brut Tysylio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Chronicle Of The Kings Of Britain; Translated From The Welsh Copy Attributed To Tysilio ... And Illustrated With Copious Notes; To Which Are Added Original Dissertations ... by Peter Roberts written by Brut Tysylio and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Lancaster Brown
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486411453
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (114 download)
Download or read book Megaliths, Myths and Men written by Peter Lancaster Brown and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating study of early astronomical knowledge through the interpretation of such ancient monuments as Stonehenge, Carnac, other megalithic sites. Over 140 photos, maps, illustrations. "Fascinating."? Publishers Weekly.
Author : Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452944652
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)
Download or read book Stone written by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone maps the force, vivacity, and stories within our most mundane matter, stone. For too long stone has served as an unexamined metaphor for the “really real”: blunt factuality, nature’s curt rebuke. Yet, medieval writers knew that stones drop with fire from the sky, emerge through the subterranean lovemaking of the elements, tumble along riverbeds from Eden, partner with the masons who build worlds with them. Such motion suggests an ecological enmeshment and an almost creaturely mineral life. Although geological time can leave us reeling, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen argues that stone’s endurance is also an invitation to apprehend the world in other than human terms. Never truly inert, stone poses a profound challenge to modernity’s disenchantments. Its agency undermines the human desire to be separate from the environment, a bifurcation that renders nature “out there,” a mere resource for recreation, consumption, and exploitation. Written with great verve and elegance, this pioneering work is notable not only for interweaving the medieval and the modern but also as a major contribution to ecotheory. Comprising chapters organized by concept —“Geophilia,” “Time,” “Force,” and “Soul”—Cohen seamlessly brings together a wide range of topics including stone’s potential to transport humans into nonanthropocentric scales of place and time, the “petrification” of certain cultures, the messages fossils bear, the architecture of Bordeaux and Montparnasse, Yucca Mountain and nuclear waste disposal, the ability of stone to communicate across millennia in structures like Stonehenge, and debates over whether stones reproduce and have souls. Showing that what is often assumed to be the most lifeless of substances is, in its own time, restless and forever in motion, Stone fittingly concludes by taking us to Iceland⎯a land that, writes the author, “reminds us that stone like water is alive, that stone like water is transient.”
