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    Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain
    Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain
    Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain
    Audiobook8 hours

    Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain

    Written by James Canton

    Narrated by James Canton

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    ‘Intensely alive to the landscape; its pasts, people and creatures’ Robert Macfarlane

    Take a journey into our ancient past. Explore a long-lost landscape and gradually discover the minds, beliefs and cultural practices of those souls who lived on these lands thousands of years before you.

    Travelling the length and breadth of Britain, James Canton pursues his obsession with the physical traces of the ancient world: stone circles, flint arrowheads, sacred stones, gold, and a lost Roman road. He ponders the features of the natural world that occupied ancient minds: the night sky, shooting stars, the rising and setting sun. Wandering to the furthest reaches of the islands, he finds an undeciphered standing stone north of Aberdeen and follows the first footsteps on the edge of a long-lost Ice Age land in the North Sea.

    As Canton walks the modern terrain, slowly understanding the ancient signs that lie within and beneath it, he weaves a gentle tale of discovery, showing how, beyond the superficial differences of life-style and culture, the ancient inhabitants of the British Isles were much closer to the present-day one than we might imagine.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateJun 15, 2017
    ISBN9780008181901
    Ancient Wonderings: Journeys Into Prehistoric Britain
    Author

    James Canton

    Dr. James Canton runs the Wild Writing MA at the University of Essex and is the author of Ancient Wonderings and Out of Essex: Re-Imagining a Literary Landscape, which was inspired by his rural wandering in East Anglia. He was awarded his PhD by the University of Essex and reviews for the TLS, Caught by the River, and Earthlines. Canton is a regular on British television and radio and lectures frequently. He lives in Essex, England.

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      Fascinating book. I just loved it and listening to the author brought these ancient wondering to life.