Local Interest - South Wessex

Sarum, Edward Rutherfurd. "A must in any bookshelf. It is incredible how Rutherfurd dives into History and lets you share it with the characters. It's very exciting to read about such events as the construction of Stonehenge or the Salisbury Cathedral from the point of view of the normal people that probably lived there at the time. I'm dying to visit all these places and see them with my own eyes!"Buy today.

English Heritage Books: Stonehenge. Re-examines Stonehenge in the light of current knowledge of the monument and places it in the context of the surrounding landscape. "Stonehenge" includes the results of fieldwork and analysis carried out in the last decade and includes evidence for the physical cultural and spiritual setting of the monument. The surviving structures, the stages of development, the ritual and funerary landscapes, evidence for increasing organization as well as evidence of the economy and agriculture of the inhabitants are examined. Recent fieldwork and analysis have revealed traces of the people living in the area that gives a much closer knowledge of the builders and uses of Stonehenge.

 

Francis Frith's Around Winchester. This volume features around 100 photographs of Winchester from the Frith archive. There are extended captions to the pictures and a full introduction is included. The price quoted includes a voucher to be redeemed with the publisher for a free mounted print of any view in the book.