tjj
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Edited Jan 05, 2010, 20:08
Somerville's Travels
Dec 28, 2009, 12:48
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One of my sons thoughtfully gave me Somerville's Travels as a xmas prezzie. At first glance it looks like a coffee-table book - when you open the pages it is a bit of a treasure. The opening chapter is a journey planner for a 30 mile walk from Land's End to St Ives which takes an inland detour to chun Quoit, Lanyon Quoit and Men-An-Tol. He gives other useful reference books such as Journey to the Stones - guided Walks to the Old Stones of the Land's End Peninsular by Ian McNeil Cooke.
A bit like a walking version the Standing with Stones dvd - Christopher Somerville makes his way north (including northern Ireland) finishing in northern Scotland and Shetland. There is a journey planner with each walk and it would be easy to dip in and out of them if travelling by car.
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scubi63
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Re: Books of possible interest
Dec 28, 2009, 16:46
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Sounds like a good book to buy with my vouchers, cheers TJJ :o)
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Branwen
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Edited Jan 27, 2010, 20:23
Books online
Dec 31, 2009, 20:28
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SEARCH ONLINE FOR OLD BOOKS
http://www.archive.org/index.php
http://www.geometry.net/
http://www.scribd.com/
http://celt.ucc.ie/index.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/c/collsize/collsize?summ=all
http://www.ebooksread.com/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html
http://www.pearl.arts.ed.ac.uk/
OR OLD MAPS
http://geo.nls.uk/os25inch/
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Littlestone
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Chalkland: Andrew J Lawson
Jan 04, 2010, 21:17
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Chalkland: an archaeology of Stonehenge and its region, by Andrew J Lawson.
"Andrew Lawson's credentials to write about Stonehenge and its environs are evident throughout this book. His involvement in excavations and fieldwork in Wessex since the 1960s and twenty years in charge of Wessex Archaeology make him best placed to write an authoritative study of Stonehenge."*
* More here - http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/83153/affiliate/antiquity//Location/Oxbow
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moss
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Tombs, Temples and Orientations - Michael Hoskin
Jan 14, 2010, 13:16
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Its Tombs, Temples and Their Orientations; Roc in his blog mentions the book, and though it is for abroad and not for the British Isles it looks a very good read, though you can only get secondhand copies.....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tombs-Temples-Orientations-Michael-Hoskin/dp/0954086716
"This book presents and analyzes the measurements of temples and communal tombs of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age, carried out during a dozen years of fieldwork in Portugal, Spain, the Balearics, southern France, Corsica, Sardinia, Malta, Sicily, Pantelleria, North Africa and Crete. The evidence is summarized at the end of the book, giving the orientations of some three thousand tombs and temples, a number of which have since been destroyed by mechanized land-clearance. The author concludes that in most regions the monuments faced sunrise, or more generally the sun when it was rising or climbing in the sky. Along the Mediterranean coast of France, however, a reverse sunset custom developed, while in North Africa at least some of the tombs faced downhill. The book concludes with a study of a Minoan cemetery on Crete where all tombs faced moonrise and look towards a mountain on whose peak was a sanctuary probably sacred to a lunar god. "
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mercian
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Re: Books of possible interest
Jan 17, 2010, 23:05
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Only just seen this on the net today.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/news/090914-rr161release
This is my turf so I`m looking forward to reading this.
There`s a google earth add on thingy here
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=34fe5885270e24b587d843da81b91233
All the best.
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tiompan
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Re: Books of possible interest
Jan 17, 2010, 23:18
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mercian wrote:
Yep ,an incredible site .
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Littlestone
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Memoir of Newton: William Stukeley
Jan 18, 2010, 11:00
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William Stukeley's Memoir of Newton
MEMOIRS OF SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S LIFE
William STUKELEY, M.D., F.R.S. 1752
Being some account of his family; & chiefly of the junior part of his life.
Bit off topic but as it's by Stukeley it may be of interest.
http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/view/texts/normalized/OTHE00001
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Littlestone
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Edited Jan 18, 2010, 11:12
Where Rivers Meet: Simon Buteux and Henry Chapman
Jan 18, 2010, 11:09
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Excellent stuff Mr m!
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nigelswift
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Re: Memoir of Newton: William Stukeley
Jan 18, 2010, 16:37
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Coincidentally, the Royal Society has made Stukeley's memoir of Newton available in facsimile form online today.
http://www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages/
It contains the apple story, which we owe to Stukeley.
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