Standing With Stones - Rupert Soskin
Across the length and breadth of Britain and Ireland lies an unsurpassed richness of prehistoric heritage. Standing with Stones is a personal voyage of discovery, taking the reader to over a hundred megalithic sites in a photographic journey through the British Isles. The book is divided into regions, and each site featured is given its Ordnance Survey grid reference.Some, like Stonehenge and Newgrange, are well known and often visited, but many, such as Fernworthy and Bleasdale, are remote and barely known.Rupert Soskins stunning and original photographs act as windows into the past, which, together with his engaging and accessible text, encourage the reader to think afresh about the meaning and purpose of these monuments and at the same time open the eyes of travellers and enthusiasts to the great wealth and variety of henges, circles, dolmens, barrows and standing stones across the British Isles." A breathtaking photographic journey from Cornwall to Orkney, taking in the wonders of megalithic Britain and Ireland and revealing their power, majesty and magical settings."The text is both well researched and persona - sometimescontroversial, always entertaining."Will appeal to tourists, armchair travellers and archaeologists, as well as all megalith enthusiasts." Covers the most famous and well-visited sites and many that are much less well known, fromAvebury to Arbor Low, Maes Howe to Merrivale, Newgrange to Nether Largie, Stonehenge to Stenness."The photographs in the book were taken in the course of making a documentary film by Rupert Soskin, available on DVD; there is also a dedicated website, www.standingwithstones.com.Extent: 192ppIllustrations: 250 illustrations, 248 in colourBinding: Hardback