Stone Lands
A Journey of Darkness and Light through Britain’s Ancient Places
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2025
Robinson (Verlag)
978-1-4721-4918-3 (ISBN)
Robinson (Verlag)
978-1-4721-4918-3 (ISBN)
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An enchanting memoir of the deep past and the personal present, uncovering the wonder of Britain's megaliths alongside a story of grief and hope.
'No one knows why or how standing stones were set upright thousands of years ago and yet, amazingly, here they still are, in our modern world, waiting for us to go out and find them. They are totems of longevity, endurance and mystery; they are symbols of survival set in contrast to our ephemeral human lives.'
A few months after discovering that her beloved husband, Stephen, had incurable stage 4 gallbladder cancer, Fiona Robertson began to write this book. As a megalith enthusiast, something resonated profoundly from the ancient monuments as she faced the prospect of losing him. Ideas of death, the deep past, survival and memory lie within the stones, and they offer a way to understand our collective history alongside our individual fates.
Journeying across twelve 'stone lands', from West Penwith and Avebury to the Lake District and Orkney, this book uncovers the magic and rich history of Britain's most incredible megaliths - and what they mean in the shadow of personal pain. It also shows how, if we let them, they can enchant our world with their folklore, magic and mystery. The result is an enthralling memoir, one that is woven delicately around great grief but is ultimately about embracing life and ancient wonder - a luminous reminder of what it means to exist on this earth.
'No one knows why or how standing stones were set upright thousands of years ago and yet, amazingly, here they still are, in our modern world, waiting for us to go out and find them. They are totems of longevity, endurance and mystery; they are symbols of survival set in contrast to our ephemeral human lives.'
A few months after discovering that her beloved husband, Stephen, had incurable stage 4 gallbladder cancer, Fiona Robertson began to write this book. As a megalith enthusiast, something resonated profoundly from the ancient monuments as she faced the prospect of losing him. Ideas of death, the deep past, survival and memory lie within the stones, and they offer a way to understand our collective history alongside our individual fates.
Journeying across twelve 'stone lands', from West Penwith and Avebury to the Lake District and Orkney, this book uncovers the magic and rich history of Britain's most incredible megaliths - and what they mean in the shadow of personal pain. It also shows how, if we let them, they can enchant our world with their folklore, magic and mystery. The result is an enthralling memoir, one that is woven delicately around great grief but is ultimately about embracing life and ancient wonder - a luminous reminder of what it means to exist on this earth.
Fiona Robertson is Publisher of Watkins and Nourish, where books she has commissioned include The Old Stones (winner of Current Archaeology Book of the Year), as well as England on Fire and Weird Walk. As a long-standing megalith enthusiast, Fiona documents her stone-searching online as @megalithophile on Instagram (with over 14k followers) and Twitter. She has a deep interest in history with a BA in Modern History from The Queen's College, Oxford, and an MA in South Asian Studies from SOAS.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.6.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Approx. 25 b/w line drawings plus maps. |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 240 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4721-4918-1 / 1472149181 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4721-4918-3 / 9781472149183 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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