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''No one knows why or how standing stones were set upright thousands of years ago and yet, amazingly, here they still are, in our modern world, waiting for us to go out and find them. They are totems of longevity, endurance and mystery; they are symbols of survival set in contrast to our ephemeral human lives.''

A few months after discovering that her beloved husband, Stephen, had incurable stage 4 gallbladder cancer, Fiona Robertson began to write this book. As a megalith enthusiast, something resonated profoundly from the ancient monuments as she faced the prospect of losing him. Ideas of death, the deep past, survival and memory lie within the stones, and they offer a way to understand our collective history alongside our individual fates.

Journeying across twelve ''stone lands'', from West Penwith and Avebury to the Lake District and Orkney, this book uncovers the magic and rich history of Britain''s most incredible megaliths - and what they mean in the shadow of p

Stone Lands

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      Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
      Published 1/19/2025
      ISBN-13 9781472149183
      978-1472149183
      ISBN-10 1472149181
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      Non Fiction History General and world history

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''No one knows why or how standing stones were set upright thousands of years ago and yet, amazingly, here they still are, in our modern world, waiting for us to go out and find them. They are totems of longevity, endurance and mystery; they are symbols of survival set in contrast to our ephemeral human lives.''

      A few months after discovering that her beloved husband, Stephen, had incurable stage 4 gallbladder cancer, Fiona Robertson began to write this book. As a megalith enthusiast, something resonated profoundly from the ancient monuments as she faced the prospect of losing him. Ideas of death, the deep past, survival and memory lie within the stones, and they offer a way to understand our collective history alongside our individual fates.

      Journeying across twelve ''stone lands'', from West Penwith and Avebury to the Lake District and Orkney, this book uncovers the magic and rich history of Britain''s most incredible megaliths - and what they mean in the shadow of p

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