History of Aerial Photography and Archaeology: Mata Hari's Glass Eye and Other Stories

by Martyn Barber

This book was inspired by a centenary marking the first aerial photographs of an archaeological monument in Britain. Those photographs are inevitably of Stonehenge.

How a single balloon flight and the resulting photographs fit into the context of the history of aerial photography is revealed in this fascinating new book. The main emphasis is on how aerial photography came to be such an important tool for archaeologists over the last 100...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848020368
• ISBN13: 9781848020368
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Historic England Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.6" x 9.7"