Stonehenge: The Defender

by Leon Stover and Harry Harrison

Book Overview

Three brave warriors--a prince from an ancient house, a former envoy of the Pharaoh, and the daughter of the Albi--struggle against an empire to establish a new world order around the monument at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0523480733
• ISBN13: 9780523480732
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 347 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Adventure in bronze age England

The Stonehenge has been dated by modern techniques to go back somewhat further than depicted here ( pre-bronze age). The idea that early civilization came to England as colonization as a mining community isn't new. Here it is brought to life with a struggle between Mycenae and Atlantis over the tin mine that makes possible the harder bronze from blending copper and tin. The civilization of England that produced the large number of circle monuments seems to have had an original in an astrological based religion of harvest and celebrations of times. The savage raiding tribes with head taking did come later when middle eastern refugees colonized Ireland and England. Robert E. Howard in Bran Mak Morn: The Last King depicts the peoples of this early age differently. I enjoyed the novel and appreciated their effort to bring to life a culture long gone.

A little information for an otherwise detail-less page . . .

There are two forms of the 1972 book titled "Stonehenge." "Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died" is the longer original UK verison of "Stonehenge." The book was cut for sale in the US and titled "Stonehenge." "Stonehenge" tells a possible story of those mysterious stones in England known as Stonehenge. Apparently, the Mycenaean (mainland Greeks) and Atlantean (Atlantis/Minoan - Greek civilization on Crete) Empires were engaged in battle around 1500 B.C. using bronze weapons. There were two known sources of tin (needed to make bronze), in Europe up the Danube river and in Britain. The Atlanteans controlled the European tin mine, and the Mycenaeans controlled or used the British tin mine. History: Mycenaean civilization dominated the Aegean Sea after the Minoan civilization collapsed. Warfare between the two and natural disasters on Crete lead to the destruction of the Minoan civilization. The Mycenaean civilization came to an end around 1100 B.C. and was followed by the long Greek Dark Ages. - Michael S. Briggs -