The Old Straight Track
$34.59
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
4 February 2021
Summary
A beautiful new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient ‘ley lines’ criss-crossing the English countryside.
First published in 1925, The Old Straight Track described the author’s theory of ‘ley lines’, pre-Roman pathways consisting of aligned stone circles and prehistoric mounds, used by our Neolithic ancestors.
Watkins’s ideas have intrigued and inspired generations of readers – from historians to hill wa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800249523 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1800249527 |
| Author: | Alfred Watkins, Robert Macfarlane |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Apollo |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 4 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 365g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 128mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Watkins re-enchanted the English landscape, investing it with fresh depth and detail, prompting new ways of looking and new reasons to walk – Robert Macfarlane
A remarkable book… Alfred Watkins [was a] visionary who saw beyond the bounds of his time’ – John Michell
Robert Macfarlane in his introduction to this new edition […] is respectful, finding new relevance in Watkin’s writing. The result is to fold Watkins, the counter-cultural mystic-modernist, into the cultural landscape, laying the track for others to follow * TLS *
A stimulating historical mediation on landscape * Daily Mail *
Careful erudite topography in the grand Enlightenment tradition, which nevertheless presents a vision of Herefordshire that is awe-inspired * Spectator *
Alfred Watkins
Alfred Watkins was an amateur archaeologist, born in Herefordshire in 1855, where he lived his entire life. In 1921, he developed his theory of ley-lines in the landscape. Watkins was a member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, an authority on bee-keeping, and a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He died in 1935.
Robert Macfarlane is the prize-winning author of The Wild Places (2007), The Old Roads (2011), Landmarks (2015), and Underland (2019). His writing has been widely adapted for television and radio. He is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
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