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A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in
which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines'
criss-crossing the English countryside. First published in 1925,
The Old Straight Track described the author's theory of 'ley
lines', pre-Roman pathways consisting of aligned stone circles and
prehistoric mounds, used by our Neolithic ancestors. Watkins's
ideas have intrigued and inspired generations of readers - from
historians to hill walkers, and from amateur archaeologists to
new-age occultists. This edition of The Old Straight Track, with a
substantial introduction by Robert Macfarlane, will appeal to all
who treasure the history, contours and mystery of Britain's ancient
landscapes.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
PublishingAcentsa -a centss Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age,
it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia
and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally
important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to
protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for e
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
These�-if ancient-seem to be invariably on (not merely alongside) a
ley, and in many cases are at the crossing of two leys, thus
appropriating the sighting point to a new use. -from "Churches"
Were the significant sites of ancient Britain deliberately aligned
along an invisible web of power? Or is it a mere coincidence that
so many locations associated with worship and arcane knowledge are
situated in unique spatial relationship to one another? Self-taught
photographer and anthropologist Alfred Watkins was the first to
discover the "ley lines" apparently connecting the churches,
megaliths, earthen mounds, holy wells, and other places of power in
Britain, and he published his results in this 1922 book. Though he
offers no extraordinary explanation of their meaning-except,
perhaps, that the leys represent ancient trade routes-others have
associated ley lines with UFOs, crop circles, dowsing, and other
paranormal phenomena. Long out of print, this foundational work is
a vital resource for students of the supernatural. British
photographer and amateur archaeologist ALFRED WATKINS (1855-1935)
was a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and served as
president of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club in 1919. He also
wrote The Old Straight Track (1925) and The Ley Hunter's Manual
(1927).
First published in 1925 THE OLD STRAIGHT TRACK remains the most
important source for the study of ancient tracks or leys that
criss-cross the British Isles- a fascinating system which was old
when the Romans came to Britain. First in the Herefordshire
countryside, and later throughout Britain, Alfred Watkins noticed
that beacon hills, mounds, earthworks, moats and old churches built
on pagan sites seemed to fall in straight lines. His investigation
convinced him that Britain was covered with a vast network of
straight tracks, aligned with either the sun or the path of a star.
Although traces of this network can be found all over the country,
the principles behind the ley system remain a mystery. Are they the
legacy of a prehistoric scientific knowledge which is now all but
lost? And was their purpose secular or religious?
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