108 destinations
by Brad Olsen
Published by Consortium of Collective
Consciousness
Price £13.50
Review by Hawthorn
An attractive book, with lots of maps and
photographs – both colour and black-and-white. Covering the whole of Europe, it is, despite
its 300-odd pages, necessarily brief involving a considerable degree of
authorial choices. Some are idiosyncratic – Liverpool is included, for
example, as the home of the Beatles. Others are more what you might expect –
Avebury, Glastonbury, Stonehenge are among the nine
sites listed for England. For my own
home-country of Wales, only St
Winifred’s Well in North-East Wales is listed. No
surprises here.
For this reason, I found the chapters on
other European countries of greater interest. Those covered include:”Central Europe”, “The Low
Countries”, and “Eastern Europe” and Scandinavia. The chapters on Ireland, France, Greece, Spain and Italy, contain the most
listings.
There are inevitably frustrations and
omissions in a book of this nature which aims to cover so much ground, but I
did nonetheless find it enjoyable to read through, looking for personal
favourites and coming across sites that were new to me. It has inspired me to
travel to sites new to me, something that can only be a good thing.
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