Rings of Stone
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 286
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Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stan Abbott
Publisher: Saraband
Published: 2022-11-22
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1915089816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn accessible exploration of England's prehistoric past through the clues set in stone by our ancient ancestors. Stan Abbott explores Britain's neolithic remains, including Castlerigg and Long Meg and her Daughters. In Ring of Stone Circles, Stan Abbott sets out to explore one part of England for the visible clues to our mysterious past from the Neolithic and Bronze Ages: stone circles and standing stones, in Cumbria—the Northern English county that boasts more of these monuments than any other. Here, the country’s tallest mountains are ringed by almost fifty circles and henges, most of them sited in the foothills or on outlying plateaux. But why were these built? We may never have a definitive answer to this question, but by observing and comparing sites, a greater understanding emerges. Were some circles built for ritualistic purposes, or perhaps astronomical? Were they burial sites, or simply meeting places? Join Stan Abbott as he searches for the hidden stories these great monuments guard—and might reveal if we get to know them.
Author: Robert Simmons
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 593
ISBN-13: 1583949089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished in association with North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California.
Author: Alexander Lawes
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2016-04-20
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1785384546
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Do you trust me?” When Anna's dirt bike pulled up alongside late one summer's evening, Harry grasped the opportunity to escape the city and his troubles, but he never imagined the mysterious girl would lead him across the galaxy to another world. Transported via the Ring of Stones to a planet reflecting a visionary Earth, the friends embark on an intricate pursuit of the truth about what really happened to their missing parents, all the while struggling to remain one step ahead of the sinister Authorities.
Author: J. Campbell
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 0595392024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid Llewellyn, a white American writer, becomes infatuated with a young black woman while vacationing on a small Caribbean island. But love is not all he finds in paradise. Llewellyn becomes enmeshed in a struggle between groups on the island battling for control of an old plantation estate that is key to their aspirations, and absorbed with the dark legend of a Victorian heiress reputed to have ritually killed young children in her search for eternal youth. Llewellyn's own ambitions and desires become blinders. Even as strange events and ghostly warnings abound, he is unable to see a plot to recreate an ancient Celtic ceremony in which his own life will be the crucial blood sacrifice. Promises on a Ring of Stone lifts the mask of polite smiles and friendly faces to expose deep-seated rifts in the society of an emerging nation in the 1970s. It is also the story of the struggle and mistrust between rich and poor, black and white, set against a backdrop of resurrected pagan rites and enduring voodoo beliefs.
Author: Camille Yarbrough
Publisher: Sankofa Books
Published: 2005-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780940975675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTamika finds strength in her family, her friends, and herself as she copes with the murder of her father by drug dealers.
Author: Aubrey Burl
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780300083477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe spectacular stone circles of western Europe, some nearly 6000 years old, have intrigued viewers through the ages. This beautiful book about these megalithic rings explores their ancestry, methods of construction, and eventual desertion. A substantially revised version of Aubrey Burl's highly praised work The Stone Circles of the British Isles, it offers new insights into the purpose of stone circles. It also provides a new interpretation of Stonehenge and of Callanish in Scotland, the first overview of the cromlechs in Brittany, a discussion of the problems of archaeoastronomy as related to stone circles, a greatly expanded Gazetteer, and an up-to-date list of radiocarbon dates and recent excavations.
Author: Adam Welfare
Publisher: Royal Commission
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781902419558
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStone circles always excite the imagination, and nowhere more so than in the north-east of Scotland, which holds one of the most dense concentrations to be found anywhere in the British Isles. Illustrated with unique plans, this volume examines the facts, myths and mysteries surrounding some of Scotland's most evocative ancient monuments.
Author: W. G. Sebald
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2016-11-08
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 081122130X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants."
Author: Aull
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 2020-12-17
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1000111113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book contains papers on algebra, functional analysis, and general topology, with a strong interaction with set theoretic axioms and involvement with category theory, presented in the special session on Rings of Continuous Functions held in 1982 in Cincinnati, Ohio.