Review
`This is a fascinating account...a thoroughly researched history that's both entertaining and authoritative.' - Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
--Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
`Superbly researched and thoroughly entertaining account of the monument's history' --Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday
--Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
`Superbly researched and thoroughly entertaining account of the monument's history' --Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday
Review
`Clear, intelligent and often highly amusing, this study achieves something new in the voluminous literature on Stonehenge.... excellent.'
Review
`Intelligent and often witty... refreshingly unmocking.'
TLS
`...brings genuine originality to the cultural history of Stonehenge.'
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Book Description
Stonehenge is the most famous prehistoric monument in Europe and is visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year. 'Impressively researched, full of charming anecdotes and engagingly written,' says the Daily Telegraph's Andy Letcher, 'Hill's Stonehenge deserves to become the standard introduction for professionals and amateurs.'
Product Description
Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides the most wide-ranging and expansive history of the megalithic structure to date, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today.
About the Author
Rosemary Hill is a writer and critic who specialises in literary and cultural history.Her biography of A W N Pugin, God's Architect, appeared in 2007. Stonehenge won the Historians of British Art Prize in 2008. She is currently working on a study of antiquarianism in the romantic period.
