My Pagan Ancestor Zuri by Ken West

My Pagan Ancestor Zuri by Ken West

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Journey to the mysterious Avon valley, home of Stonehenge, with a Christchurch pensioner and our pagan ancestor from 2200 BC, and witness prehistory come alive.

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My Pagan Ancestor Zuri by Ken West

Meet Zuri, our sophisticated pagan ancestor as she lives her life in Christchurch in 2200 BC. It is the Neolithic period and the first civilisation in Britain along the mystical River Avon, an area called 'Avonlands'. Her rituals and mythology embrace nature to a degree that we no longer understand. Her tribe is contrasted with the wealthy pensioners, the oldest population in the UK, who now live where her hut once stood. Most have abandoned the dirty air of London for the picturesque Dorset coast. This is a social history of two tribes living in the mysterious region of Stonehenge, with today's pensioner tribe living to twice Zuri's age, growing overweight and unfit, and when not idly writing books, overwhelming the NHS.
Since retirement, Ken West has written two books on natural burial, and spent the past four years researching and writing My Pagan Ancestor Zuri, using his horticultural and environmental skills and well as his understanding of death and its associated ritual. Inspired by a Bronze Age grave in his new street in Christchurch, he, and his alter ego Zuri, show why Avonlands is a true paradise, now and in the past, when Stonehenge was the wonder of the age. Ken lives in Christchurch, UK.
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ISBN 13 9781789041552
ISBN 10 1789041554
Title My Pagan Ancestor Zuri
Author Ken West
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Collective Ink
Year published 2019-07-26
Number of pages 192
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.