GOOD to VERY GOOD CONDITION

This sale is for a vintage edition entitled “Stonehenge Decoded,” by Professor Gerald S. Hawkins in collaboration with John B. White, illustrated with 12 photographic plates and 15 maps/plans/diagrams.

It was published by Fontana/Collins, of London in May 1972 and is the second impression of the 1970 FIRST PRINTING in Fontana Books.

On Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, in southern England stands an arrangement of stones that has been the subject of countless studies, poems and legends dating back beyond the days of King Arthur and his court.  What did this group of stones signify to its architects? Was it a city of the dead? A Druid altar of sacrifice? Or something else?

It took a 20^th century astronomer, and modern computer techniques to unravel the ancient mystery.  He conducted a detailed examination of Stonehenge and the astronomical alignments of the stones.  All the evidence indicated that Stonehenge was a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived astronomical observatory, used by three different groups of people over a 400 year period beginning around 1900 B.C.

As the author recreates his dramatic discovery he tells of the mythology that has grown up around the site and of the techniques employed to bring the stones across hundreds of miles of sea and land to their resting place.

The contents include:

·       The Legends

·       The People

·       History

·       The Method

·       Others

·       First Thoughts

·       The Machine

·       The Response

·       Eclipses

·       The Numbers Game

·       Last Thoughts

·       Appendix

o   A – Stonehenge Decoded

o   B – Stonehenge: A Neolithic Computer

o   C – Callanish, a Scottish Stonehenge

The book measures 7 inches x 4.25 inches and has 253 pages + photographic illustrations. 

The book is in good, neat condition for a softback of its age. There are NO inscriptions/book-plates and NO other ink or pencil markings in the book.  The binding is good, with a crease along the spine, and no loose or missing pages.

A good, neat copy of this illustrated vintage edition.

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