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The Old Straight Track
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.Book Details
- Publisher: Apollo Publishing International
- Publish Date: Jan 1st, 2022
- Pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.10in - 1.20in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9781800249523
- Categories: • Europe - Great Britain - General• Historical Geography• Unexplained Phenomena
About the Author
Watkins, Alfred: - Alfred Watkins was an amateur archaeologist, who was born in 1855 in Herefordshire, where he lived his entire life. In 1921, he developed his theory of ley-lines in the landscape. Watkins was a member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, an authority on bee-keeping and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He died in 1935.
MacFarlane, Robert: - Robert Macfarlane is the prize-winning author of The Wild Places (2007) and The Old Roads (2011), Landmarks (2015) and Underland (2019). His writing has been widely adapted for television and radio. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
Praise for this book
"Watkins re-enchanted the English landscape, investing it with fresh depth and detail, prompting new ways of looking and new reasons to walk" --Robert Macfarlane
"A remarkable book... Alfred Watkins [was a] visionary who saw beyond the bounds of his time'" --John Michell "Robert Macfarlane in his introduction to this new edition [...] is respectful, finding new relevance in Watkin's writing. The result is to fold Watkins, the counter-cultural mystic-modernist, into the cultural landscape, laying the track for others to follow" --TLS "A stimulating historical mediation on landscape" --Daily Mail "Careful erudite topography in the grand Enlightenment tradition, which nevertheless presents a vision of Herefordshire that is awe-inspired" --Spectator