The Scouring of the White Horse

The Scouring of the White Horse
Author: Thomas Hughes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2023-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3382322986

Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

The Scouring of the White Horse; Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk

The Scouring of the White Horse; Or, The Long Vacation Ramble of a London Clerk
Author: Thomas Hughes
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2021-05-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This work presents an insightful report on the events of a festival held to celebrate the "Scouring of the Horse." It took place on the 17th and 18th of September, 1857. The festival's remarkable success led the Committee of Management to consider that people would enjoy having a small printed memorial. It includes an account of the doings on the Hill on the wonderful occasion and a collection of the various legends and traditions of the countryside. In addition, it presents precise historical reports relating to the significant events that took place in Great Britain, making it a perfect read for history lovers.

The Land of the White Horse

The Land of the White Horse
Author: David Miles
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0500519935

An exploration of one of England’s great ancient monuments: the 360-foot-long chalk White Horse at Uffington. The White Horse at Uffington is an icon of the English landscape—a prehistoric, nearly abstract figure 360 feet long, carved into the green turf of a chalk hill. Along with Stonehenge, the Horse is widely regarded as one of the Wonders of Britain. For centuries antiquarians, travelers, and local people have speculated about the age of the Horse, who created it, and why. Was it a memorial to King Alfred the Great’s victory over the Danes, an emblem of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers, was the Horse an actor in an elaborate prehistoric ritual, drawing the sun across the sky? Archaeologist David Miles explores the rich history of the ancient white horse, as well as the surrounding landscape, in order to understand the people who have lived there since the end of the Ice Age. As Miles tracks the possible origin of this English landmark, he also illuminates how the White Horse has influenced countless artists, poets, and writers, including Eric Ravilious, John Betjeman, and J. R. R. Tolkien. The White Horse is one of most remarkable monuments of England, not least because it is still intact. People have cared for it and curated it for centuries, even millennia. Ultimately, Miles, using an archaeological framework, roots a myth for modern times in scientific findings.

David's Crown

David's Crown
Author: Malcolm Guite
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2021-01-29
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1786223082

As well as the name of a virus, a corona is a crown, the pearly glow around the sun in certain astronomical conditions and a poetic form where interlinking lines connect a sequence. It is the perfect name therefore for this new collection of 150 poems by the bestselling poet Malcolm Guite, each one written in response to the Bible’s 150 psalms as they appear in William Coverdale’s timeless translation. The Psalms express every human emotion with disarming honesty, as anger and thankfulness alike are directed at God. All of life is here with its moments of beauty and its times of despair and shame. Like the Psalms themselves, the poems do not avoid the cursing and glorying over the downfall of your enemies, but wrestle honestly with them as we do when we come to say them.

Memories of the Vale

Memories of the Vale
Author: Lewin Maine
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2016-01-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9781523690862

First published in 1866 as "A Berkshire Village: its history and antiquities", this little collection of memories and true tales from the Vale of the White Horse has charmed generations of readers. At a time of rapid change in the English countryside the author, curate Reverend Lewin G. Maine, sought to record for posterity local people's recollections of a lost way of life. Now, exactly 150 years later, Rev Maine's work has been given an extra lease of life in this new edition edited by local historian Julie Ann Godson. With more than 20 delightful period illustrations, the book takes the reader from the most obscure period of British history through to the final days of a truly rural existence before the Great Western Railway thundered into this quiet corner of England.

Prehistory

Prehistory
Author: Chris Gosden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2018
Genre: HISTORY
ISBN: 0198803516

Recent archaeological discoveries from China and central Asia have changed our understanding of how human civilization developed in the period of some 4 million years before the start of written history. In this new edition of his Very Short Introduction, Chris Gosden explores the current theories on the ebb and flow of human cultural variety.

Horse Latitudes

Horse Latitudes
Author: Paul Muldoon
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2014-09-02
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1466879793

The title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing ships tend to be becalmed, where stasis (if not stagnation) is the order of the day. From Bosworth Field to Beijing, the Boyne to Bull Run, from a series of text messages to the nineteenth-century Irish poet Tom Moore to an elegy for Warren Zevon, and from post-Agreement Ireland to George W. Bush's America, this book presents us with fields of battle and fields of debate, in which we often seem to have come to a standstill, but in which language that has been debased may yet be restruck and made current to our predicament. Horse Latitudes is a triumphant new collection by one of the most esteemed poets of our time.

The Inspector and Silence

The Inspector and Silence
Author: Hakan Nesser
Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Total Pages: 323
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307379825

It’s a sweltering summer in Sweden and Chief Inspector Van Veeteren is long overdue for a holiday when a secretive and dubious religious sect comes under investigation. One of its members, a girl on the cusp of adolescence, is found dead in the forest near their holiday camp, brutally raped and strangled; the discovery of her body has been phoned in by an anonymous caller. The members of the sect, the Pure Life, are led by Oscar Yellinek, a charismatic but unnervingly guarded messiah figure. In an act that mystifies and infuriates Van Veeteren and his associates, the members of the Pure Life choose to remain silent about the incident rather than defend themselves. But an unidentified woman is continuing to assist the authorities, and her knowledge suggests she’s more than just a passing Good Samaritan. Her tips become doubly perplexing as a new string of increasingly horrifying crimes defy everything Van Veeteren and his team thought they knew about the case. A riveting new addition to Håkan Nesser’s acclaimed series, The Inspector and Silence is suspense at its haunting best.