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Ancient Wonderings - Journeys into Prehistoric Britain (Hardcover)
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Ancient Wonderings - Journeys into Prehistoric Britain (Hardcover)
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List price R622
Loot Price R470
Discovery Miles 4 700
You Save R152 (24%)
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'Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures'
Robert Macfarlane Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a
long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and
cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands
thousands of years before you. 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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