Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
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In this book is a radical idea. By walking the ancient landscape of Britain and following the wheel of the year, we can reconnect to our shared folklore, to the seasons and to nature. Let this hauntological gazetteer guide you through our enchanted places and strange seasonal rituals:
SPRING: Watch the equinox sunrise light up the floating capstone of Pentre Ifan and connect with the Cailleach at the shrine of Tigh nam Bodach in the remote Highlands
SUMMER: Feel the resonance of ancient raves and rituals in the stone circles of southwest England’s Stanton Drew, Avebury and the Hurlers
AUTUMN: Bring in the harvest with the old gods at Coldrum Long Barrow, and brave the ghosts on misty Blakeney Point
WINTER: Make merry at the Chepstow wassail, and listen out for the sunken church bells of the lost medieval city of Dunwich
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Additional information
| Publisher | Watkins Publishing, 0 edition (10 Oct. 2023) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 288 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1786786826 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1786786821 |
| Dimensions | 18.11 x 2.95 x 21.67 cm |
by E LEACH
Interesting and informative, an amazing book ! Great photography. The layout and design of the book and the quality is first class .
by Travels.along.my.bookshelf
This guide by the zine creators Weird Walk takes you through Albion’s strange and ancient landscapes, standing stones, pagan rituals and connections to folklore, the seasons and nature.
Each season you can walk a different landscape, from the well known Avebury and Stonehenge to the lesser known (certainly to me) Bix Bottom and The Devil’s Arrows. Packed with information and walking notes and stunning photography it’s a fabulous book. I really enjoyed it, especially the little walking note extras. Something a bit different, happy to walk on the weird side!
by MRS H.
I recommend you read this book and immerse yourself in the world of Weird Walk
by Hannah
I am one of the few people who wasn’t aware of The Weird Walk journal of wanderings and wonderings before reading this book – but it sounded interesting. With books like these I always turn first to places I know well, in that way I know how good or useful the rest of the book will be.
This book takes you on a year of walks through ancient mythical Britain. The sites in the South West of England were well chosen with accurate details and an interesting write up with information that was new to me. This book is a great collection of sites to walk to from the well known – Stonehenge, to ones that would probably only be known to locals – the Green Man at Wootton Rivers. As a lover of history, I found this a great collection of walks.
by Mel
Firstly I wasn’t aware of the “cultural phenomenon” Weird Walk, and I’m still not quite sure what it is either if I’m honest – so I was just expecting this to be a book of walks to “weird” places! On that front it isn’t exactly what I expected, but I did still enjoy it.
This book basically gathers together a bunch of cool and unusual places and events within Britain that hark back to an older and more mysterious era. There isn’t a great deal of emphasis on the walks involved to get to these places, and for several of them it’s literally a walk from the car park and then plot your own route on an OS map if you want to go any further, but to be honest books of walks often don’t work anyway since by the time you get chance to go and do them all, scattered over the British Isles as they are, at least some of the details of footpaths, pubs and public transport are invariably out of date.
The photos are great and I like the way that the descriptions are written in a chatty, witty style. There’s a good variety of sites and events chosen so it doesn’t get repetitive either. Overall I liked it a lot and would have been happy to read more than the sampler I had from Netgalley.
by Mr Alex Ponting
one of the best books on this subject! highly recommend
by Bob Humm
It’s so good, read this book and start walking weird.
by Steve St Ives
I was expecting strange and wonderful insights from this book but unfortunately it’s full of pretty standard walk information (cross the stile, follow the footpath etc) and little of the fascinating and mysterious essence of the places described. It seems like the authors are only skimming the surface of what makes these locations so extraordinary. And the photographs with added pretend ‘lens flare’, Instagram style are pure neo horror style over substance.
In essence it’s a lack lustre, social media click bait browse into the Old Ways but with none of the knowledge.