Stations of the Sun
Title | Stations of the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Hutton |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | 566 |
Release | 2001-02-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0191578428 |
Comprehensive and engaging, this colourful study covers the whole sweep of ritual history from the earliest written records to the present day. From May Day revels and Midsummer fires, to Harvest Home and Hallowe'en, to the twelve days of Christmas, Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. He challenges many common assumptions about the customs of the past, and debunks many myths surrounding festivals of the present, to illuminate the history of the calendar year we live by today.
The Stations of the Sun
Title | The Stations of the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Hutton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 542 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Festivals |
ISBN | 9780191676758 |
Ronald Hutton takes us on a fascinating journey through the ritual year in Britain. His comprehensive study covers all the British Isles and the whole sweep of history from the earliest written records to the present day.
The Stations of the Sun. A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
Title | The Stations of the Sun. A History of the Ritual Year in Britain PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 542 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Storms from the Sun
Title | Storms from the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Carlowicz |
Publisher | Joseph Henry Press |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780309076425 |
Examines the emerging physical science of space weather and the impact the sun and solar storms have on Earth life.
The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space
Title | The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Eddy |
Publisher | Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780160838088 |
" ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.
Too Close to the Sun
Title | Too Close to the Sun PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Wheeler |
Publisher | Random House |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2007-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1588365999 |
Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer. Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance and boundless power. Tall and graceful, with the soul of a poet and an athlete’s relaxed masculinity, he became a hero without trying at Eton and Oxford. In 1910, searching for novelty and danger, Finch Hatton arrived in British East Africa and fell in love–with a continent, with a landscape, with a way of life that was about to change forever. Wheeler brilliantly conjures the mystical beauty of Kenya at a time when teeming herds of wild animals roamed unmolested across pristine savannah. No one was more deeply attuned to this beauty than Finch Hatton–and no one more bitterly mourned its passing when the outbreak of World War I engulfed the region in a protracted, bloody guerrilla conflict. Finch Hatton was serving as a captain in the Allied forces when he met Karen Blixen in Nairobi and embarked on one of the great love affairs of the twentieth century. With delicacy and grace, Wheeler teases out truth from fiction in the liaison that Blixen herself immortalized in Out of Africa. Intellectual equals, bound by their love for the continent and their inimitable sense of style, Finch Hatton and Blixen were genuine pioneers in a land that was quickly being transformed by violence, greed, and bigotry. Ever restless, Finch Hatton wandered into a career as a big-game hunter and became an expert bush pilot; his passion that led to his affair with the notoriously unconventional aviatrix Beryl Markham. But Markham was no more able to hold him than Blixen had been. Mesmerized all his life by the allure of freedom and danger, Finch Hatton was, writes Wheeler, “the open road made flesh.” In painting a portrait of an irresistible man, Sara Wheeler has beautifully captured the heady glamour of the vanished paradise of colonial East Africa. In Too Close to the Sun she has crafted a book that is as ravishing as its subject.
Pagan Britain
Title | Pagan Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Hutton |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 496 |
Release | 2014-05-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300198582 |
Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughly up-to-date book, Ronald Hutton reveals the long development, rapid suppression, and enduring cultural significance of paganism, from the Paleolithic Era to the coming of Christianity. He draws on an array of recently discovered evidence and shows how new findings have radically transformed understandings of belief and ritual in Britain before the arrival of organized religion. Setting forth a chronological narrative, Hutton along the way makes side visits to explore specific locations of ancient pagan activity. He includes the well-known sacred sites—Stonehenge, Avebury, Seahenge, Maiden Castle, Anglesey—as well as more obscure locations across the mainland and coastal islands. In tireless pursuit of the elusive “why” of pagan behavior, Hutton astonishes with the breadth of his understanding of Britain’s deep past and inspires with the originality of his insights.