Mysterious Britain: Fact and Folklore (Country Series) - Softcover

Sykes, Homer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0297834533 ISBN 13: 9780297834533

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1995

Synopsis

The landscape of Britain is dotted with remarkable features - Neolithic burial chambers, enigmatic hill carvings, standing stones and 15th-century memento mori. This book captures these "mysteries" and recounts their histories and the tales that surround them.

About this title

About the Author:

Homer Sykes is a well-known freelance photographer and a member of the internationally renowned group, Network Photographers. He has travelled widely on photographic assignments throughout the world. His passion however is Britain and his books include Once a Year: Some Traditional British Customs and Mysterious Britain. He was co-author with Roger Protz of The Village Pub, with Godfrey Smith of The English Season, and with Roy Kerridge of The Storm is Passing Over. Homer Sykes currently lives in London, SW20.

From Booklist:

Yet another book on Britain's prehistoric monuments should have something special to recommend it, and this one does: Sykes' sumptuous, magnificently composed portraits of Long Meg, the Cerne Abbas Giant, the White Horse at Uffington, and other British antiquities. The clear, well-researched prose is good enough, but the photographs are simply brilliant. Scotland's vast Ring of Brodgar, for instance--a famous stone circle set on a pancake-flat isthmus--is a difficult subject, and most attempts fail to capture its magnetic mystery; Sykes' portrait of it is mostly looming sky, broken at the horizon by a lemon sunset before which 20 stones stand like black-clad mourners. Sykes is to megalith as Avedon is to celebrity. Each photo here is a treasure. Pat Monaghan

About this edition

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0297834533
• ISBN 13: 9780297834533
• Binding: Paperback