Megaliths

Megaliths
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9780224064644
ISBN-13 : 0224064649
Rating : 4/5 (649 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Megaliths by : Lai Ngan Corio

Download or read book Megaliths written by Lai Ngan Corio and published by Random House. This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Corio has systematically photographed the megalithic sites ofEngland and Wales with the eye of a great landscape photographeras well as with the passion of an explorer in the ruins of an ancientculture. These photographs go to the heart of prehistoric Englandand reveal a profound sense of'place'. The sites are revealed withall the beauty that invited Romantic speculation from theseventeenth century onwards as well as the encroaching modemworld of distant urban skylines and protective barriers. Lai Ngan'stext distils the mythical narratives that arose around theseextraordinary structures and places as well as pointing to the recentastronomical and mathematical research which suggests theirremarkable function in the prehistoric calendar. The photographspoint to the beginning of architecture itself in Britain, with thesuggestion of both sacred and secular function, layered in thefabulous tales of popular imagination.


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