Alfred Watkins

Broschiertes Buch

The Old Straight Track

Beschreibung

A 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.

Autor

Alfred Watkins was an amateur archaeologist, who was born in 1855 in Herefordshire, where he lived his entire life. In 1921, he developed his theory of ley-lines in the landscape. Watkins was a member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, an authority on bee-keeping and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He died in 1935.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781800249523
• ISBN-10: 1800249527
• Artikelnr.: 60479709

Rezensionen

'Watkins re-enchanted the English landscape, investing it with fresh depth and detail, prompting new ways of looking and new reasons to walk' Robert Macfarlane