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Release | : 2020 |
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ISBN | : 9781910839409 |
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Author | : Alfred Watkins |
Publisher | : Orchard |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Herefordshire (England) |
ISBN | : 9781906663674 |
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Alfred Watkins, who was born in Hereford and lived all his life (1855-1935) in Herefordshire, is perhaps best known for the discovery of ancient tracks - 'ley lines'. The core of this book is a previously unpublished manuscript by Alfred Watkins called The Masefield Country, written in 1931. Alfred Watkins' text is prefaced by an introduction to his life and work by Ron and Jennifer Shoesmith and followed by a section on his pioneering photography and developments in photographic equipment. (A light meter of his invention was used to good effect by Herbert Ponting, the official photographer on Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole.) The book ends with a selection of Alfred Watkins' photographs of Herefordshire from those held in Hereford City Library, whilst others are used to illustrate the earlier sections of the book, some of them being specifically referred to in Alfred's own text, for he intended to publish this book himself and had planned how to illustrate it.
Author | : R. Shoesmith |
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Total Pages | : 159 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Archaeologists |
ISBN | : 9780951024270 |
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Author | : K. F. Rayner |
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Release | : 1988 |
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Download Alfred Watkins 1855-1935 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Allen Watkins |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Archaeologists |
ISBN | : 9780855111601 |
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Author | : Jim Wood |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2015-04-20 |
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ISBN | : 9781539493884 |
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Photographer Jim Wood takes you on a journey through Herefordshire in the footsteps of Alfred Watkins a Hereford born inventor, writer, photographer and antiquarian, putting his lens where Watkins put his a century before to show how the county has changed in the intervening years.
Author | : Alfred Watkins |
Publisher | : Little Brown |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780349137070 |
Download The Old Straight Track Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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?
Author | : Martin Pavey |
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Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1985 |
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Author | : Ella Mary Leather |
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Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Author | : Alfred Watkins |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2014-09-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 178185663X |
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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.