Jacquetta Hawkes, A Land, The Cresset Press, London, 1951 (unique leather binding)
Title: A Land
Author: Jacquetta Hawkes
Publisher: The Cresset Press, London
Publication date: 1951
Format: Hardcover in unique leather binding
Book Condition: Fine
A Land begins: "When I have been working late on a summer night, I like to go out and lie on the patch of grass in our back garden … this hard ground presses my flesh against my bones and makes me agreeably conscious of my body."
Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996) was an archaeologist and writer who made an extensive contribution to archaeology between the 1930s and 1980s through poetry, journalism, guide books, and academic papers. Her masterpiece, "A Land," published in 1951, fused her poetic imagination with scientific acumen to narrate Britain's million-year history in an innovative style. The book encapsulates her vision of Britain as a unified entity, where past, present, nature, man, and art coexist seamlessly. The book opens with Hawkes describing her personal experience, contemplating the geology beneath her London garden. Alongside black and white images of fascinating and beautifully photographed archeological forms, the book features colour reproductions of drawings by Henry Moore, a friend of Hawkes’, and discusses Moore’s creative use of the qualities of stones.
Title: A Land
Author: Jacquetta Hawkes
Publisher: The Cresset Press, London
Publication date: 1951
Format: Hardcover in unique leather binding
Book Condition: Fine
A Land begins: "When I have been working late on a summer night, I like to go out and lie on the patch of grass in our back garden … this hard ground presses my flesh against my bones and makes me agreeably conscious of my body."
Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996) was an archaeologist and writer who made an extensive contribution to archaeology between the 1930s and 1980s through poetry, journalism, guide books, and academic papers. Her masterpiece, "A Land," published in 1951, fused her poetic imagination with scientific acumen to narrate Britain's million-year history in an innovative style. The book encapsulates her vision of Britain as a unified entity, where past, present, nature, man, and art coexist seamlessly. The book opens with Hawkes describing her personal experience, contemplating the geology beneath her London garden. Alongside black and white images of fascinating and beautifully photographed archeological forms, the book features colour reproductions of drawings by Henry Moore, a friend of Hawkes’, and discusses Moore’s creative use of the qualities of stones.
Title: A Land
Author: Jacquetta Hawkes
Publisher: The Cresset Press, London
Publication date: 1951
Format: Hardcover in unique leather binding
Book Condition: Fine
A Land begins: "When I have been working late on a summer night, I like to go out and lie on the patch of grass in our back garden … this hard ground presses my flesh against my bones and makes me agreeably conscious of my body."
Jacquetta Hawkes (1910-1996) was an archaeologist and writer who made an extensive contribution to archaeology between the 1930s and 1980s through poetry, journalism, guide books, and academic papers. Her masterpiece, "A Land," published in 1951, fused her poetic imagination with scientific acumen to narrate Britain's million-year history in an innovative style. The book encapsulates her vision of Britain as a unified entity, where past, present, nature, man, and art coexist seamlessly. The book opens with Hawkes describing her personal experience, contemplating the geology beneath her London garden. Alongside black and white images of fascinating and beautifully photographed archeological forms, the book features colour reproductions of drawings by Henry Moore, a friend of Hawkes’, and discusses Moore’s creative use of the qualities of stones.