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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Award-winning photographer Sara Hannant has travelled the length and breadth of England capturing the seemingly bizarre regional rituals – costumed processions symbolic dramatizations traditional dances and fire ceremonies – that mark the changing seasons and celebrate nature’s bounty. In Whittlesey Cambridgeshire for example a man covered from head to toe in straw – the ‘Straw Bear’ – is paraded through the streets accompanied by 250 dancers musicians and other performers while in Ottery St Mary Devon a crowd gathers as townspeople hoist barrels of flaming tar on to their shoulders and carry them until they are too hot to handle. Many of these customs claim an ancient origin and are kept alive today by local communities. Hannant’s illuminating captions trace the history and significance of each ritual and her vibrant images reflect her keen eye for the unexpected. (MP)