Author: Edward Hungerford Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Author: Edward Hungerford Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Author: Edward Hungerford Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
The Montgomeryshire Collections
Author: Powys-land Club
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomeryshire (Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomeryshire (Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Ancient Yew
Author: Robert Bevan-Jones
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1911188127
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past. This book tells the extraordinary story of the yew’s role in the landscape through the millennia, and makes a convincing case for the origins of many of the oldest trees, as markers of the holy places founded by Celtic saints in the early medieval ‘Dark Ages’. With wonderful photographic portraits of ancient yews and a gazetteer (with locations) of the oldest yew trees in Britain, the book brings together for the first time all the evidence about the dating, history, archaeology and cultural connections of the yew. Robert Bevan-Jones discusses its history, biology, the origins of its name, the yew berry and its toxicity, its distribution across Britain, means of dating examples, and their association with folklore, with churchyards, abbeys, springs, pre-Reformation wells and as landscape markers. This third edition has an updated introduction with new photographs and corrections to the main text.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1911188127
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past. This book tells the extraordinary story of the yew’s role in the landscape through the millennia, and makes a convincing case for the origins of many of the oldest trees, as markers of the holy places founded by Celtic saints in the early medieval ‘Dark Ages’. With wonderful photographic portraits of ancient yews and a gazetteer (with locations) of the oldest yew trees in Britain, the book brings together for the first time all the evidence about the dating, history, archaeology and cultural connections of the yew. Robert Bevan-Jones discusses its history, biology, the origins of its name, the yew berry and its toxicity, its distribution across Britain, means of dating examples, and their association with folklore, with churchyards, abbeys, springs, pre-Reformation wells and as landscape markers. This third edition has an updated introduction with new photographs and corrections to the main text.
Aubrey's Brief Lives
Author: John Aubrey
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473521734
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURR John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His ‘lives’ of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey’s biographical writings, a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day, still more alive and kicking than in any conventional work of history.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473521734
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURR John Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His ‘lives’ of the prominent figures of his generation and the Elizabethan era, including Shakespeare, Milton and Sir Walter Raleigh, have been plundered by historians for centuries for their frankness and fascinating detail. Collected here are all of Aubrey’s biographical writings, a series of unforgettable portraits of the characters of his day, still more alive and kicking than in any conventional work of history.
Across the Open Field
Author: Laurie Olin
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207866
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life." So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. What he found, in abundance, was the serendipity of a human environment built over time to respond to the land's own character and to the people who lived and worked there. For Olin, the English countryside was a palimpsest of the most eloquent and moving sort, yet whose manifestation was of ordinary buildings meant to shelter their inhabitants and further their work. With evocative language and exquisite line drawings, the author takes us back to his introduction to the scenes of English country towns, their ancient universities, meandering waterways, and dramatic cloudscapes racing in from the Atlantic. He limns the geologic histories found within the rock, the near-forgotten histories of place-names, and the recent histories of train lines and auto routes. Comparing the growth of building in the English countryside, Olin draws some sobering conclusions about our modern lifestyle and its increasing separation from the landscape. As much a plea for saving the modern American landscape as it is a passionate exploration of what makes the English landscape so characteristically English, Across the Open Field is "an affectionate ramble through real places of lasting worth.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207866
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life." So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself dissatisfied with his job as an urban architect and accepted an invitation to England to take a respite from work. What he found, in abundance, was the serendipity of a human environment built over time to respond to the land's own character and to the people who lived and worked there. For Olin, the English countryside was a palimpsest of the most eloquent and moving sort, yet whose manifestation was of ordinary buildings meant to shelter their inhabitants and further their work. With evocative language and exquisite line drawings, the author takes us back to his introduction to the scenes of English country towns, their ancient universities, meandering waterways, and dramatic cloudscapes racing in from the Atlantic. He limns the geologic histories found within the rock, the near-forgotten histories of place-names, and the recent histories of train lines and auto routes. Comparing the growth of building in the English countryside, Olin draws some sobering conclusions about our modern lifestyle and its increasing separation from the landscape. As much a plea for saving the modern American landscape as it is a passionate exploration of what makes the English landscape so characteristically English, Across the Open Field is "an affectionate ramble through real places of lasting worth.
Collections Historical & Archaeological Relating to Montgomeryshire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomeryshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Montgomeryshire (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Surrey Archaeological Collections
Author: Surrey Archaeological Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
List of members.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
List of members.