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by Robert Irving (Author), John Lundberg (Author), Mark Pilkington (Editor)
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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Strange Attractor Press (29 Aug 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0954805429
  • ISBN-13: 978-0954805425
  • Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Three decades ago, two men in their fifties began flattening circles into the fields of Hampshire and Wiltshire. Little did they know that their Friday night antics would seed an international phenomenon that continues to change people's lives to this day.

Now, in the first book of its kind - part history and part how-to guide - the secrets of the crop circle world are revealed, by the people behind the modern era's most astounding artform.

Whether you think crop circles represent a genuine mystery, a new kind of art, or an elaborate practical joke, The Field Guide is sure to leave a lasting impression.

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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars They can't all be hoaxes can they?, 11 Sep 2006
This book need be your only reference into the world of Crop Circles. It provides insight into why this very British pastime continues to happen every year, and even offers the tempting instructions of how to do it yourself. Perhaps a little more weighted towards the very real human involvement in the subject than other books. Even if you disbelieve or oppose the words written in it, it cannot help but inspire you to take to the fields and test the waters.
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars "It's only flattened cron" - Doug Bower, 12 Oct 2006
By Mark Barnes "Mark Barnes" (UK) - See all my reviews
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Its been on the top of circle enthusiasts minds for some time now keeping them wondering when it would finally get released yet it almost got abandoned somewhere in cornwall. After being compiled over several years the definitive 'Field Guide' to crop circles has finally been completed. Full of humor and wit this is a masterfully written book by true wordsmiths that will have you hooked from start to finish giving a rich in depth account on modern circle making and the philosophy that many circle makers follow. It also gives a very detailed and insightful look at the pre-history of crop circles,the science and how it all began along with interviews with well know circlemakers.
With its 'Roll your own' instructions and diagrams to get anyone started in the field this book will hopefully inspire a whole new generation of circle makers that will help shape this exciting phenomena in the future.

A must read for anyone interested in crop circles regardless of your belief.

Happy Stomping :D
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A highly deceptive work of fiction, 30 Aug 2009
By H. Drew (Australia) - See all my reviews
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As someone who has studied the real crop picture phenomenon for seven yesrs now, I had never heard of this "Field Guide" until recently, when some naive person espoused it as the ultimate guide to understanding modern crop circles! I was immediately suspicious of any such claim, especially because another website run by these same authors can sometimes be, to put it mildly, somewhat less than truthful.
Their "Field Guide" (in my view) is more of the same. What they describe therein has only a passing resemblance to the real crop picture phenomenon, that many other serious researchers are still exploring, and is actively ongoing today in 2009.
First of all, I do not believe that "Doug and Dave" made anywhere near the totality of early crop pictures from the late 1980's to early 1990's. There was never any evidence to support their claims, and those old gentlemen would have had no idea how to code so much symbolic astronomy into crops.
Secondly, when these authors describe the detailed nature of many later crop pictures, they seem to have no idea what they are talking about. Only someone compeletely new to the subject would read their work past the front cover. Why not buy a book say by Lucy Pringle, Eltjo Haselhoff, Bert Janssen or Janet Ossebaard, if you want to learn something useful and true?
Thirdly, many large, complex crop pictures from 2007 onward have been witnessed to occur (sometimes on film) in otherwise empty fields, and in a short period of time, where no human fakers could possibly have been present: for example East Field of July 7, 2007, or Silbury of July 5, 2009. Hence the basic hypothesis of this book has been shown through recent work to be deeply flawed.
One strongly suspects that the authors of this book already know all of the objections mentioned above, since they are good writers of fiction, and generally intelligent people. The question then becomes: why would anyone write such a work of entertaining fiction about modern crop pictures, rather than something which is at least approximately true, subject to all of the widely different ideas that have been espoused to explain this phenomenon? Now there is an interesting question, to which we do not seem to have any clear answer at present.


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