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The story of how Francis Pryor created a haven for people, plants and wildlife in a remote corner of the fens.

A journey through the evolution of Britain's prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants, in fifteen scenes.

A journey through Britain's rapidly evolving prehistoric landscape, and an insight into the lives of its inhabitants, in fifteen scenes.

A concise, illustrated account of the history and archaeology of an iconic feature of the English landscape.

A look at prehistoric farming by an archaeologist-farmer.

How were the Crusades made possible? This volume is the first to bring together experts from the fields of medieval Western, Byzantine and Middle Eastern studies specifically to address the logistics of Crusading. It deals with questions of manpower, types and means of transportation by land and sea, supplies, financial resources, roads and natural land routes, sea lanes and natural sailing routes. Of particular importance is the attention giv...

Stonehenge" author Francis Pryor presents the archaeology, history and contemporary landscape of the fens - a unique site in the English imagination.

Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that h...

The hidden details of England's landscapes and the forces that have shaped them are explored by respected archaeologist and author Francis Pryor.

A personal, historical journey across one of the most mysterious regions of England, exploring its archaeology, history and landscapes.

An illustrated, evocative narrative of the nature and history of Stonehenge that places the enigmatic stone megaliths in a wider cultural context.Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient structure. Its purpose-place of worship, sacrificial arena, giant calendar-is unknown, but its story is one of the most extraordinary of any of the world's prehistor...

Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain¿s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the 'written' and the 'unwritten' constitution.

Francis Pryor maintains that early farming in Britain has been largely misunderstood, due to a loss of contact with the countryside and failure to understand prehistoric farming methods. To redress this problem, this book reconstructs the lives of prehistoric farmers, to provide details on crop cultivation and flock management.

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Outlines the application of chaos theory to the field of career development. This text covers such themes as: factors such as complexity, change, and contribution, people's aspirations in relation to work and personal fulfilment, and, contemporary realities of career choice, career development and the working world.

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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology

Taking us back to the wild, marshy region of the east, surrounding the cathedral city of Ely, archaeologist and detective, Alan Cadbury, returns for his second adventure.

One of the most haunting and enigmatic archaeological discoveries of recent times was the uncovering in 1998 at low tide of the so-called Seahenge on the north coast of Norfolk. This circle of wooden planks set vertically in the sand, with a large inverted tree-trunk in the middle, likened to a ghostly "hand reaching up from the underworld, " has now been dated to around 2020 BC. It focused national attention on archaeology to an extent not se...