Buy this book on-line BRIGGS**, ASA: : ARTHUR'S BRITAIN: The Land and the LegendUK.CAMBRIDGE,PEVENSEY PRESS,1985. ISBN 0907115268.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn but there is a used bookplate pasted to front fep and price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,scenic colour photographs (St Michael's Mount+Stonehenge - front+rear wraps respectively) illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore -edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight and near pristine.Bright,clean, publisher's original blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean,plain blue endpapers.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,7-144pp [pagin ated] includes half-title+title pages,colour scenic photographic frntis (entrance to Porchester Castle),contents list,an introduction,80 colour photographs,4 b/w maps,4 sections: SW Britain,S+SE Britain, Wales+Welsh Borders, North of England+Scotland,a bibliography, and an index of names.
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 pre-historic stone circles and burial chambers to medieval fortified castles and inaccessible hermit's 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 guidebooks),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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