On Silbury Hill (Little Toller Monographs)
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1908213361 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Kindle Customer said Wonderful--a must-read. This is an exceptional memoir built around childhood experiences of Silbury Hill in the UK. A neolithic monument, the author's experience of it has followed him into his adult life and informed his writing and thoughts about the world. Thorpe skillfully blends passages and memories of his life with explanations of the archeaology behind Silbury Hill, and the speculations surr
Adam Thorpe, author of the highly influential book Ulverton, reflects on what Silbury Hill has meant to him throughout his life.. Silbury Hill, the largest pre-historic mound in Europe, like Stonehenge, has inspired and perplexed people for generations
Adam Thorpe was born in Paris in 1956 and brought up in India, Cameroon and Southern England. He lives in France and currently teaches classes at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts de Nimea and at the University of Nimes.. His first novel, Ulverton was published to great critical acclaim and is considered a modern classic. He has since published nine novels, five collections of poetry and two books of short stories. He has also published new translations of
With the book's attractive feel, and clear and often memorable writing, 'interpretive archaeology' never came so seductively packaged." (MIKE PITTS, British Archaeology) ----- "Honest enough to admit that we cannot hope to do more than conjecture - and yet sympathetic to successive archaeological, psychological, poetic and spiritual interpretations, Thorpe proves an engaging guide to a landscape steeped in secrets." (GREG NEALE, Resurgence & Ecologist) ----- "What I particularly love about the whole book - is the openness of this dry, wry, sometimes angry, often self-deprecating historian to - the intrusion of memory and magic." (RUTH DAVIS, Nature and the common good) ----- "Some books slipped quietly onto the shelves this year, none more so than Adam Thorpe's On Silbury Hill (Little Toller Books, GBP15), a wonderfully idiosyncratic but deeply informed personal essay on what might well be the most mysterious of England's landmarks." (JOHN BURNSIDE,