Megaliths (London: Random House, 2003; $55) features David Corio's handsome black-and-white photographs of both well-known and obscure ancient stone monuments in England and Wales. The accompanying text, by Corio's wife, writer Lai Ngan Corio, gracefully recounts legends and folklore associated with each site. What makes the book especially fun to read is its focus on descriptions of the sites left behind by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century antiquarians, who can always be counted on for interesting speculations, like wondering if megaliths were made by "Men of Gigantick stature." [More Europe books...] |