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How To Read Castles by Malcolm Hislop (Paperback, 2018)
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How to Read Castles is a travel-sized primer that takes a strictly visual approach to castle architecture, building up the reader's vocabulary of castle types, styles, and materials, and showing how these aspects can be recognised across architectural features from the floor-plan and moat, to the towers and crenulations. Focusing on the period from the 10th to the 16th century, and crusading across the globe from a Welsh motte-and-bailey to a Japanese hirajiro, this is both architectural reference and visitor guide-showing the reader how to read the stories embedded in every castle's stones. Castles once dominated the landscape as seats of power and symbols of wealth and status, providing a means of control over borders, passes, routes and rivers. Armed with this book you will be able to unpick their histories and see how they shaped the land around them. From rugged coastline defences to soaring mountain fortresses, this book takes the reader on an international journey of discovery, exploring some of the most inspiring and impressive architecture history has ever seen.Product Identifiers
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
ISBN-139781912217687
eBay Product ID (ePID)4046570159
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Book TitleHow to Read Castles
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
AuthorMalcolm Hislop
Number of Pages256 Pages
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Item Weight390g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorMalcolm Hislop
Series TitleHow to Read
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 12 May, 2021
Worthy addition to any collection of castle books
Good pocket sized book explaining castle design features with clear illustrations. Not a book for reading from start to finish, but great for dipping in and out of. Explains all the elements of castle design in a clear and understandable way.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
