Product Description

Stonehenge is woven into the earliest Arthurian legends and has been analysed by everyone from archaeologists, to town planners, to the Druids who have made it their spiritual home. By refusing to adopt one theoretical position, Rosemary Hill provides the most wide-ranging and expansive history of the megalithic structure to date, from its creation in 3000 BC to the threat of the thunderous main roads that flank it today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136132 in Books
• Published on: 2009-06-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Review
`This is a fascinating account...a thoroughly researched history that's both entertaining and authoritative.' - Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday
--Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday

`Superbly researched and thoroughly entertaining account of the monument's history' --Simon Shaw, Mail on Sunday

Review
`Clear, intelligent and often highly amusing, this study achieves something new in the voluminous literature on Stonehenge.... excellent.'

Review
`Intelligent and often witty... refreshingly unmocking.'

Customer Reviews

The PERFECT Christmas gift
Look no further - this is it. 'Stonehenge' is the perfect Christmas gift. It's brilliantly written, incredibly interesting (Stonehenge took 70 generations to build!?!), the book appeals to all ages, it's not too long, not too big, not expensive, besides we all feel passionate about Stonehenge as it's a vital part of our heritage. Don't forget to buy a copy of this wonderful book for yourself.

Summer Solstice
From Mrs E Cumming

Rosemary Hill does so well in "Stonehenge" to combine erudition with all the acadmic dryness taken out of it somehow... there must be the most intense research, not a reference missed from earliest in 937 to the present, and this takes us through all sorts of literature, art, history, cultural periods, it is really compelling and makes me determined to visit Stonehenge properly with all this information bringing the whole thing into bright light instead of just staring and being overawed in an ignorant greyness..
I like the way she starts by declaring that the book supports none of the theories! Then throws out so many that you wonder how she managed to stay objective herself.

And there are bits of humour, like Dr. Johnson being so dismissive... "there is neither art nor power in it" and he wouldn't want to see any more such, thank you very much... and what about Aubrey and friend having dinner on top of one of the trilithons !
And the connections with the architecture of Bath, Piccadilly Circus and even Milton Keynes...

Stonhenge- Rosemary Hill
I am a non-academic, but Stonehenge is one of the most Interesting subjects on planet Earth....................................
A Very Good book.................................You cant put it down !