The Barnes Review Book Club 2019 Book & Gift Catalog
THE BARNES REVIEW BOOK CLUB 2019 BOOK & GIFT CATALOG NEW SELECTIONS FROM TBR BOOK CLUB Spirits in Stone: The Secrets of Megalithic how this site is related to the Serpent Mound in Ohio and reveals how all of the vast, interlocking sites in the northeast were part of an ancient America— Decoding the Ancient Cultural spiritual landscape based on a sophisticated understanding of the cosmos, Stone Landscapes of the Northeast as practiced by ancient inhabitants of the Americas. Includes an enlightening foreword by world-renowned maverick archeologist Graham NEW! In this comprehensive guide to hundreds of lost, forgotten and Hancock, author of Magicians of the Gods. Softcover, 432 pages, 376 misidentified megalithic stone structures in the northeastern U.S.A., B&W illustrations, #806, $25. Glenn Kreisberg documents many enigmatic formations still standing across the Catskill Mountain and Hudson Valley region, complete with The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam functioning solstice and equinox alignments. Sites include the “Wall of the Manitou,” “Devil’s Tombstone” and Overlook Mountain. Spirits in NEW! Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-1890) was a captain of the Bombay Stone is a groundbreaking study of ceremonial stone landscapes in Army, co-discoverer of the source of the White Nile with Joshua Speke, northeast America and their relationship to other sites around the world. and British consul on the island of Fernando Po, at Santos, Brazil, at Kreisberg provides a first-person description of the Wall of the Manitou, Damascus, Syria and at Trieste, Austria-Hungary. He was one of the which runs for 10 miles along the eastern slopes of the Catskill Mountains, most important linguists of his day, creating a direct-from-Arabic English as well as narratives about related sites that include animal effigies, repro- translation of the Arabian Nights.
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