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What are stone circles? When were they built, and why? How come so many of them egg-shaped, or geometrically flattened? What do they have to do with the landscape, Sun, Moon and stars? In this beautifully illustrated book, megalithomaniac Hugh Newman takes us on a fascinating journey around the world, examining these mysterious monuments of the megalithic culture from Wessex to Scotland, France to Poland, North America to Africa and India to Japan. WOODEN BOOKS are small but packed with information. "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST. "Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. Small books, big ideas.

Hugh Newman\xa0is a world explorer, megalithomaniac and author of\xa0Earth Grids: The Secret Pattern of Gaia\u2019s Sacred Sites (2008),\xa0co-author of\xa0Giants On Record: America\u2019s Hidden History, Secrets in the Mounds and the Smithsonian Files\xa0with Jim Vieira (2015), and Stone Circles (2017). He is also\xa0published in three\xa0Ancient Origins\xa0ebooks.\xa0

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