Old Straight Track

Heritage Hunter, 2015-09-15. Paperback. Used:Good.

UK: Abacus, 1977. Book. Good. Soft cover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. reprint. binding tight. pages tanned..

Regarded as the first book published on Ley lines, this is the seemingly scarce 1980 reprint of Watkins' classic. Watkins sought to prove that "mounds, moats, beacons and markstones fall into strait tracks, i.e. sighted lines, throughout Britain, with fragmentary evidence of trackways on the alignments." Out of favour for years, his theories have become popular again since the rekindling… Read more about this item

Paperback. Very Good.

First published in 1925, this book elaborated Alfred Watkins's theory of 'ley' lines, first put forward in his Early British Trackways. Based on his fieldwork in Herefordshire, Watkins's surmise was that the straight lines crossing Britain were ancient alignments with marked points, used for navigation by Stone Age man.

London: Garnstone Press, 1974. reprint. Very nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket xxii + 234pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., index, First published in 1925 is the single most important source book for the student of leys (straight tracks) in the British Isles

Time Warner Books Uk, 1994-04-01. Paperback. New.

Abacus. paperback. Very Good. 1.5988 in x 19.7850 in x 12.5904 in.

The Lost Library, 2010. Paperback. Very Good. 7x5x1. 234 pages illlustrated. A very good clean copy with no previous ownership markings and no creases.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Head of Zeus, 2014-09-11. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Jacket. 6x2x9. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Garnstone Press / Sago Press, London, 1970,. /Dust Jacket Included. 1970. Hardcover. 0900391707 hardback reprint, 8vo, xxii,234pp, frontispiece and 129 illustrations and maps, foxing on page edges, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, Good condition in rubbed and frayed dustwrapper; ISBN: 0900391707 .

Heritage Hunter, 2015-09-15. Paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback / softback. New. This is a study of the ancient tracks or leys that criss-cross the British Isles, a system which was old when the Romans first came to Britain. This is a collection of the author's investiations of the ancient monuments, which he argues follow the paths of the planets.

Abacus, 1970. Paperback. Good. 5x0x7. Cover art slightly different than image shown. Paperback wraps with shelf wear and edge wear. Spine uncreased. Two residual stickers at back panel over barcode. Previous owner's information penciled at ffep. Pages else unmarked.

Paperback / softback. New. A new edition of a classic work of landscape history, in which Alfred Watkins introduced the idea of ancient 'ley lines' criss-crossing the English countryside.