VBB wrote:
Desert Island Antiquaries
I took a great deal of pleasure in musing over this, too many things came to mind but for the work of art, discarding Paul Nash and John Piper, the Brotherhood of Ruralists came to mind ...so if I can't have Constable's Stonehenge..... this which represents a lot of the things I do,In addition to the Book and a copy of Sir John Lubbock's Prehistoric Times you can choose one work of non fiction and one novel plus a CD album (no compilations) and a photograph of an artefact or a work of art.
http://ruralists.com/artists/grahamarnold/gaworks/1983/AQuietGathering.jpg
Novel has to be Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, just for its length and scope.
Music; don't do CDs has to be Pete Gabriel and 'Solsbury Hill' for its ability to make you get up and dance..
Non fiction will be Aubrey Burl (Prehistoric Avebury) if it has to be stone based, otherwise Geoffrey Grigson - The Englishman's Flora...
