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| #278382 in Books | Philip Marsden | 2016-03-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.10 x5.75l,.0 | File Name: 022636609X | 352 pages | Rising Ground A Search for the Spirit of Place
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Cornwall, its rock assemblages, and topophilia (i.e., love of place)|By R. M. Peterson|For 2,000 years, ritual assemblages of rocks were made all over northwestern Europe -- hill-top enclosures and cairns, barrows and chambered tombs, megaliths and miniliths, stone circles, lone standing stones and spectacular multi-stone sites such as Stonehenge. Most of them have imposing t||
"Fascinating and hauntingly evocative. . . . A truly wonderful and enjoyable book."
In 2010, Philip Marsden, whom Giles Foden has called “one of our most thoughtful travel writers,” moved with his family to a rundown farmhouse in the countryside in Cornwall. From the moment he arrived, Marsden found himself fascinated by the landscape around him, and, in particular, by the traces of human history—and of the human relationship to the land—that could be seen all around him. Wanting to experience the idea more fully, he set ou... [PDF.tg22] Rising Ground: A Search for the Spirit of Place Rating: 3.62 (436 Votes)
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