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Ancient Man (and Woman!)
Prehistoric Art
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Prehistoric Art - Jean-Pierre Mohen |
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Hardback, 208 pages, Editions Pierre Terrail, 2002, Language: English Part of the Terrail series of large, colour-illustrated studies on artists, movements or architecture. A study of art in prehistoric caves such as Altamira in Spain and the Lascaux cave in France, demonstrating the symbolism and rituals represented by prehistoric art. 12?x10?, colour throughout Only £6.99+p&p Published price £14.99, a saving of over 60% |
The Seven Wonders of the World
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The Seven Wonders of the World - John & Elizabeth Romer |
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Paperback, 10"x8", 24pp colour plates, b&w throughout Ancient and modern accounts of the Wonders reconstructing their appearances and the stories of their creation and destruction, and exploring reasons for the enduring popularity of the idea of the canon of Wonders. Only £4.50+p&p Published price £20, a saving of over 70% |
Dark Age Naval Power: A Reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Seafaring Activity
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Dark Age Naval Power: A Reassessment of Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Seafaring Activity - John Haywood |
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Hardcover, Anglo-Saxon Books, 2nd Rev Ed, 2006 Offers a re-assessment of the evidence for Germanic seafaring before the Viking Age. The book questions many of the pillars of current archaeological orthodoxy - in particular, the assumption that the Vikings were unprecedented seafaring pioneers. As Haywood asserts, Germanic naval activity can be traced almost to the dawn of the recorded history of barbarian Europe. Demonstrating that an excessive concentration on ship-finds and a reluctance to cross historical boundaries has resulted in a distorted view of early Germanic seafaring, Haywood aims to present a more balanced original approach to the subject based on a synthesis of relatively neglected literary sources and archaeological evidence. It is shown that the enterprise and competence of pre-Viking seafarers has been underestimated and due prominence is given to the impressive maritime achievements of the Franks from the third century AD to the Carolingian period. This book should be of interest to students and teachers of archaeology, ancient history and classics. Only £6.99+p&p Published price £14.95, a saving of over 60% |
Early in Orcadia Novel
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Early in Orcadia - Naomi Mitchison |
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Paperback, 176 pages, House of Lochar, New edition, 1999 A fictional tale of ancient times in the Orkney Islands by the celebrated Scottish writer, telling of the adventures of a group of pre-historical islanders when they leave their village to cross the sea in pursuit of the Northern Lights. The pre-historic people of the Orkney Islands are ordinary men and women who are mostly content to win the fight for survival in their harsh world. Two of them are driven by a burning curiosity and desire for more; they dare to build a boat and travel into the unknown. Now Only £0.50+p&p Published price £6.99, a saving of loads! |
The Sutton Companion to Castles - Stephen Friar
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The Sutton Companion to Castles - Stephen Friar |
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Hardcover, 320 pages, March 2004, Publisher: Sutton Publishing Newcomers to the study of castles as well as more experienced researchers should find Stephen Friar's companion informative, knowledgeable and wide-ranging. It contains over 1000 entries on English and Welsh fortifications from the Bronze Age to the present. If you are not sure just what a "motte and bailey" castle was, or whether the Romans left any fortified building during their occupation of Britain, this is the book you need. Stephen Friar uses his vast knowledge of all aspects of castles to explain things succinctly and clearly for the non-specialist. The companion is illustrated and has an index of castles, lists of addresses and further reading. Entries cover early fortifications such as Bronze Age hillforts, Roman fortifications, signal stations, medieval, Tudor and Napoleonic castles and fortifications, siege warfare, beacons, telegraph systems, modern fortifications such as military roads, pill boxes, watch towers, and romantic revival castles such as Castell Goch and Castle Drogo. New Low Price: £4.99+p&p Published price £25, a saving of over 70% |
Underworld - Graham Hancock
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Underworld, The Mysterious Origins of Civilization - Graham Hancock |
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Hardback, 768pp. Published by Crown, 2002. From the best-selling author of 'Fingerprints of the Gods' comes a mesmerising book that takes us on a captivating under water voyage to find ruins of a lost civilisation hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans. A controversial read. New Low Price: £4.99+p&p Published price £19.99, a saving of over 65% |
The Lost Tomb Of Viracocha
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The Lost Tomb Of Viracocha, Unlocking the Secrets of the Peruvian Pyramids - Maurice Cotterell |
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Paperback, 214pp. Published by Headline, 2001 Cotterell unlocks the secrets of the Inca & discovers treasure-filled tombs. The Inca story of the legendary white gods was not myth after all. These two great sun-kings walked the lands of Peru over 1,500 years ago. Contains illustrations & colour plates Maurice Cotterell, a mathematician and scientist formerly at the Cranfield Institute of Technology, was awarded the Voluntariado Cultural medal in 1992 for his contributions to Mexican culture. He is the author of the international bestseller The Tutankhamun Prophecies and coauthor of The Mayan Prophecies. He lives in England. New Low Price: £1.50+p&p Published price £9.99, a saving of over 75% |
Publisher Comments:
Bestselling author of The Tutankhamun Prophecies decodes the spiritual mysteries hidden within the recently discovered Mochian pyramids in Sipan.
* Reveals that ancient Inca sun-kings possessed the same solar science as Lord Pacal of Mexico and Tutankhamun of Egypt.
* Solves the mystery of the ancient Inca legend concerning a white god who traveled through ancient Peru, healing the sick and restoring sight to the blind. Inca mythology tells of a tall, white leader who wandered along the coast performing miracles, a man they called Viracocha Pachamac, which means "God of the World." Centuries later another great miracle worker, similar to the first, appeared and wandered the countryside, healing the sick and restoring sight to the blind. He, too, was named Viracocha.
These accounts have long baffled scholars, as have the carvings left by the people of Tiahuanaco who preserved these legends. Now Maurice Cotterell, who cracked the codes hidden in both ancient Maya carvings and the treasures of Tutankhamun, unlocks the secrets concealed within the treasure-filled tombs of Viracocha Pachamac and Viracocha. His investigation of these tombs, held within the long-lost pyramids of Peru, proves that these two figures were not myth but actually existed 1,500 years ago. The two Viracocha sun-kings had much in common with Lord Pacal of Mexico and Tutankhamun of Egypt and, like them, left the secrets of a super solar science encoded in their treasures. This science reveals the intimate connection between the cycles of life and birth on Earth and solar activity such as sunspots. More important, it holds the key to reincarnation and human spiritual realization, with answers to the spiritual mysteries of life and death.
Footprints in Stone
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Footprints in Stone - Janet Bord |
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270 pages, 112 b&w photos, 26 line drawings, Large format paperback (245 x 175 mm). Published by Heart of Albion Press, August 2004 The significance of foot and hand-prints and other imprints left by early men, giants, heroes, devils, saints, animals, ghosts, witches, fairies and monsters.
Price: £14.95+p&p |
From the earliest humans to the present day, there has always been a compulsion to 'leave one's mark': early cave art includes thousands of hand outlines, while many churches in Britain have foot outlines inscribed in lead and stone. These two extremes span almost 30,000 years during which time all kinds of persons, real and legendary, have left visible traces of themselves. But 30,000 years ago seems almost recent, when compared with the finding of some (admittedly controversial) fossilized human footprints in rocks apparently contemporary with dinosaur footprints that are tens of millions of years old.
Most of the footprints - and hand-prints, knee-prints, and impressions of other body parts - are clearly not real, having allegedly been impressed into rocks around the world by such high-profile figures as the Buddha, Vishnu, Jesus Christ, and the Virgin Mary, as well as a vast panoply of saints, whose footprint traces and associated stories occupy two chapters. Their horses also left hoof-prints, and other animals are represented too. Not surprisingly, the ubiquitous Devil has a whole chapter to himself, but giants, villains and heroes, such as King Arthur, also feature strongly. Witches, fairies, ghosts, and monsters all put in an appearance; hundreds of imprints are described in this book, which concludes with location details for more than 100 imprint sites around the world.
Explore Green Men
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Explore Green Men by Mercia MacDermott with photographs by Ruth Wylie |
Published Sept 2003, 206 pages. Published by Explore Books, an imprint of Heart of Albion Press. 'A friendly and intriguing work of architectural scholarship.' The Guardian 'The enigmatic silence of the Green Man has been broken in the last decade by a flood of books, with a new study coming out pretty much every year since 1990. Most of them were lavisly illustrated, which is just as well, since much of the commentary was nonsense. [Explore Green Men] features new photographs from Ruth Wylie's superb archive, and it has a text which makes sense. Mercia MacDermott comes to this myth-laden territory with a cool head... ' Jeremy Harte 3rd Stone Explore Green Men is the first detailed study of the history of this motif for 25 years. Dr MacDermott's research follows the Green Man back from the previous earliest known examples into its hitherto unrecognised origins in India about 2,300 years ago. Read more on the Publisher's web site. |
Explore Folklore
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Explore Folklore by Bob Trubshaw |
Published Sept 2002, 196 pages. Published by Explore Books, an imprint of Heart of Albion Press. 'A howling success, which plugs a big and obvious gap' Professor Ronald Hutton "Highly Recommended" by the Folklore Society's Katharine Briggs Folklore Award 2003 There have been fascinating developments in the study of folklore in the last twenty-or-so years, but few books about British folklore and folk customs reflect these exciting new approaches. As a result there is a huge gap between scholarly approaches to folklore studies and 'popular beliefs' about the character and history of British folklore. Explore Folklore is the first book to bridge that gap, and to show how much 'folklore' there is in modern day Britain. Read more on the Publisher's web site. |
British Palaeolithic sculpture
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The first discovery of British Palaeolithic sculpture & engraving discovered in North Warwickshire and South West Leicestershire by Arthur Cross |
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Published 1999, 20 pages. The first discovery of British Palaeolithic Sculpture and Engraving shows that our distant ancesters were not the lumbering brutes surviving more by luck than sound judgement, often portrayed as such by some archaeologists. Sculpture can tell us much about the way of life of a particular culture or period, by physically representing the ideals and way of life of a civilization. |
The Alchemy Of Culture - Intoxicants In Society
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The Alchemy Of Culture - Intoxicants In Society - Richard Rudgley |
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Paperback, 160 pages, British Museum Press, 1998 This vibrant academic study, from Neolithic cave men going graffiti mad on opium, to Zoroastrian religious heroes tripping on psychoactive mang, is a hugely illuminating educational trip. Only £3.95+p&p Published price £9.99, a saving of 60% |
Scotland's Stone of Destiny
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Scotland's Stone of Destiny - Nick Aitchison |
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Hardback, 162 pages, Tempus, 2000 The story of the mythical origins of the Stone of Scone and the ancient prophecy attached to it, an examination of the Stone itself, its original function and its authenticity and its history through the centuries. b&w throughout. 10" x 8". Only £5.95+p&p Published price £19.99, a saving of over 60% |
Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Brooklyn Museum of Art - |
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Paperback, 192 pages, Scala, 1997 This companion guide to the Brooklyn Museum of Art which is now over 100 years old and contains more than one and a half million objects, shows art and artefacts from almost every culture, with particularly strong holdings of ancient Egyptian and 19th and 20th century American art. 220 colour, 6 b&w. 9" x 7". Only 1 penny+p&p Published price £12.95% |
Wonders of the Ancient World Fun Book
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Wonders of the Ancient World Fun Book - British Museum |
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Paperback, 64 pages, British Museum Press, 2000 As much fun as you can fit into 64 pages! The Fun Book of the Wonders of the Ancient World offers a plethora of puzzles, games, jokes and brain-teasers. There are crosswords, word searches, anagrams, hidden words, picture puzzles, codes to crack - and lots of jokes and cartoons along the way. A fun look at times and places of the past, through puzzles, games and activities for children of 7 years and upwards. Only £0.50+p&p Published price £2.99, a saving of 75% |
Egyptian Boats
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Egyptian Boats - Dilwyn Jones |
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Paperback, 96 pages, British Museum Press, 1995 An examination of the importance of the boat in Egyptian ritual and belief, as well as in everyday life, tracing the development of the different types of boats and the techniques of their construction. b&w illus throughout. 9" x 8". Only £1.99+p&p Published price £9.99, a saving of 60% |
Measuring the Universe
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Measuring the Universe, Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time |
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352 pages (December, 2000) Walker & Company; ISBN: 0802775926 Read a review and extract at 2Think Interview with Kitty Ferguson, and Transcript, PBS Newshour £3.99+p&p Published price $16.95 |
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