The essential handbook for anyone interested in our ancient network of green lanes. Valerie shows you how to recognise them on the ground and discover them on antique maps. She also discusses their ecological value and the current disputes over rights of way.

Revised (2006) edition of Janet & Colin Bord's 1995 classic. Fully illustrated, with around 130 photos & illustrations. Explore the rich tapestry of folklore, myth & legend woven around Britain's landscape: hills, rivers, caves, springs, lakes, stones... Includes gazeteer of more than 50 sites to visit.

This book explores aspects of East Anglian local identity; the altering landscape and its dwindling wildlife; patterns on the landscape, real & imagined; the lore of roads & transport; and the characteristic food & drink of East Anglia, with rare recipes for local delicacies to be cooked at the right season and enjoyed anew.

From the earliest humans to the present day, there has always been a compulsion to 'leave one's mark': early cave art includes thousands of hand outlines, while many churches in Britain have foot outlines inscribed in lead and stone. These two extremes span almost 30,000 years during which time all kinds of persons, real and legendary, have left visible traces of themselves. Most of the footprints - and hand-prints, knee-prints, and impressions of other body parts - are clearly not real, having allegedly been impressed into rocks around the world by such high-profile figures as the Buddha, Vishnu, Jesus Christ, and the Virgin Mary, as well as a vast panoply of saints, whose footprint traces and associated stories occupy two chapters. The Devil has a whole chapter to himself - but giants, villains and heroes, such as King Arthur, also feature strongly alongside Witches, fairies, ghosts and assorted spirits. Modern mysterious footprints have been left by monsters such as Bigfoot, or aliens who have briefly stepped out of their spacecraft. Hundreds of imprints are described in this book, which concludes with location details for more than 100 imprint sites all around the world.

A reissue of John Michell's classic work on standing stones, and the extraordinary ideas which surround them, packed with great pictures and originally published by Thames & Hudson. This new edition from the Squeeze Press has all the makings of a bestseller, at a time when interest in ancient mysteries has never been greater, and major questions about our ancient history remain unanswered.

Trubshaw examines why certain types of prehistoric places are seen as sacred. Includes excellent overviews of the Earth Mysteries movement, and the recent dramatic changes in academic archaeology. Essential reading.

An air of mystery has always surrounded the crudely carved stone heads found at prehistoric sites, on churches and on farmhouses all over the British Isles. Long known as 'Celtic heads', John Billingsley explains why this is a mistaken term as he puts them in a context extending from some of the earliest prehistoric remains to the folk traditions of nineteenth-century and even modern Britain.