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Borderlands: New Photographs and Old Tales of Sacred Springs, Holy Wells and Spas of the Wales / England Borders (Hardcover)
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Borderlands: New Photographs and Old Tales of Sacred Springs, Holy Wells and Spas of the Wales / England Borders (Hardcover)
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List price R665
Loot Price R551
Discovery Miles 5 510
You Save R114 (17%)
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The border country between Wales and England is a fertile place in
many senses. Settled for millennia, one of the few links we have
with early man here are their surviving pagan, pre-Christian wells.
Sacred wells have played an important part in the culture and
landscape of the region, and continue to do so. Following his books
on wells in Wales and Cornwall, Phil Cope journeys up and down the
borderlands, and through history from pre-Christian times through
Roman and early Christian times, the medieval Age of the Princes in
Wales and on to Victorian and the contemporary period. His
discoveries are recorded in striking and atmospheric photographs
which are accompanied by the remarkable histories of the wells, and
the legends attached to them. Wronged suitors, magic horses, Dark
Age battles, the reign of King Arthur, and innumerable
decapitations feature among the vividly magical tales. Alongside
them rests a different kind of magic in the healing wells of the
Christian saints, some of which are also sources of prophecy. As
the centuries past healing mutated into health and the development
of the spa, until, in the twentieth century a full circle was
turned and wells once again acquired a pagan significance. Richly
illustrated in colour throughout the wells from Cheshire to
Monmouthshire, from the Dee to the Severn are here displayed in all
their glory, be they in remote countryside or city centre.
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