UPON A WHITE HORSE (HB)

Peter Ross journeys from midwinter at Stonehenge to midsummer at Sycamore Gap in this remarkable book which celebrates landscape and people - and all that is beautiful, strange and old. 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, offering the comfort of recognition and the pleasure of mystery - and there is something about ancient places that fills a hollow in our souls.