Buy this book on-line BREWER, DEREK and FRANKL, ERNEST: : ARTHUR'S BRITAIN: The Land and the LegendUK.CAMBRIDGE.THE PEVENSEY PRESS,1985. ISBN 0907115268.
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Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges or corners - no nicks or tears present.Minisculely bumped to both
head+foot of spine/backstrip with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright,
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and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,unblemished, publisher's original plain,royal blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with clean dark blue endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-144pp [paginated] includes introduction,4 geographical sections [South-West Britain,South+South-East Britain,Wales+Welsh Borders and North England+Scotland],profuse full,part and double-page colour scenic photographic pages(80) by Ernest Frankl,b/w maps(4) by Carmen Frankl,text by Derek Brewer,edited by Ruth Smith,a bibliography,an index of names and list of maps to rear; plus half-title+title pages,scenic colour photographic frntis (entrance to Portchester Castle),contents list/table (unpaginated).
In British folktale,legend and literature,King Arthur,the saviour hero of the land,lives on.He takes his origin from a possible heroic warrior of the Celtic races who was the dominant leader of the resistance movement against the invading English.But in the Middle Ages the English themselves came to adopt him as their representative king,and the stories of his exploits,of his knights - Lancelot,Gawain, Kay and the rest - and of his beautiful Queen Guinevere and her fatal love affair with Lancelot all took their settings from Britain.Nowhere are these stories more vividly perpetuated than on the face of the British landscape.
From Loch Lomond to St Michael's mount, from Wookey Hole to the Brecon Beacons, striking natural features throughout England,Scotland and Wales have tales of Arthur and his knights attached to them; and so do man-made monuments,from prehistoric stone circles and burial chambers to medieval fortified castles and inaccessible hermits' cells.In all their variety of shape and mood the major Arthurian sites of Britain are illustrated
here,in colour throughout,by Ernest Frankl (well-known as the photographer of the Pevensey Press souvenir guide books),who evokes their quintessential character.
In his commentary,the distinguished medieval scholar Derek Brewer first traces
the growth of Arthurian stories in literature,and then takes a refreshingly direct look at the tales surrounding each site - without minimising the power of the
legends,and of the locations that have fostered them,to stir the imagination. Usefully divided into four main regions to serve as a guide for planning holidays and as a gazetteer whilst travelling,this handsome book will be welcomed as a unique
compilation by all lovers of Britain's heritage.
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