UPON A WHITE HORSE: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland

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Author: PETER ROSS

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781035414079

A Financial Times Best Book of 2025 and Radio 4 Book of the Week. The prehistoric sites of Britain and Ireland are places of wonder and wondering. Who made these structures? What did they mean to them? What do they mean to us now? Author of the bestseller Steeple Chasing and prize-winning A Tomb With a View (code 97606), Peter Ross journeys from midwinter at Stonehenge to midsummer at Sycamore Gap. Along the way he encounters bog bodies in Dublin, a wooden goddess in Edinburgh and a chalk giant in Dorset. He asks what it is like to live within the great stone circle at Avebury, what rituals occurred in an Anglesey tomb and what draws volunteers to care for the Uffington White Horse. These objects and structures speak of the long human story. They offer the comfort of recognition and the pleasure of mystery. There is something about ancient places that fills a hollow in our souls. The book is a celebration of landscape and people and all that is beautiful, strange and old. Small photos, 355 page paperback.