Windgather Press Imprint
Windgather Press specialises in publishing accessible and attractive books on landscape history, landscape archaeology, and the history of Britain’s countryside and further afield, including garden history. The publications are designed not only for those professionally engaged in the subject, but also those with a serious amateur interest in landscape research.
The name comes from Windgather Rocks, a prominent gritstone edge on the Cheshire/Derbyshire Border, close to where the press was originally founded in Bollington. Well-known amongst climbers and walkers, the edge overlooks a landscape of seventeenth and eighteen century field-walls and scattered farms typical of the western Pennine edge.
See new and forthcoming titles below or browse our full catalogue here.
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On This Day (June): The Armenian Church Synaxarion (Yaysmawurkʿ) [Hardback]
Edward Mathews Jr. (Editor)
£83.00ISBN: 9781463241377
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: The Armenian Church Synaxarion
Volume: 6
The Armenian Church Synaxarion is a collection of saints’ lives according to the day of the year on which each saint is celebrated. Part of the great and varied Armenian liturgical tradition from the turn of the first millennium, the first Armenia... .... Learn More -
Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam [Paperback]
Patricia Crone (Author)
£59.00ISBN: 9781463241728
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Islamic Studies
Volume: 6
Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam: the supposition that Mecca was a trading center. In addition, she seeks to elucidate sources on which we should reconstruct our p... .... Learn More -
Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 19 [Paperback]
Amir Harrak (Editor)
£61.00ISBN: 9781463241117
Published by : Gorgias Press
JCSSS is a refereed journal published annually by the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies Inc. (CSSS), located at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. JCSSS contains the transcri... .... Learn More -
Against “Irenaean” Theodicy: A Refutation of John Hick's Use of Irenaeus [Hardback]
David Hionides (Author)
£120.00ISBN: 9781463240714
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
Volume: 73
This book serves to correct the now accepted understanding of Irenaeus’s theodicy. This assumption of Hick’s theodicy as legitimately “Irenaean” remains due the gulf between Irenaean scholarship and discussion of the problem of evil. The present w... .... Learn More -
1 & 2 Chronicles According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation [Hardback]
Robert P. Gordon (Author); George A. Kiraz (Editor)
£125.00ISBN: 9781463205713
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Surath Kthob
This volume is part of a series of English translations of the Syriac Peshitta along with the Syriac text carried out by an international team of scholars. R. Gordon has translated the text, while Kiraz has prepared the Syriac text in the west Syr... .... Learn More -
“One of Life and One of Death”: Apocalypticism and the Didache’s Two Ways [Hardback]
Shawn Wilhite (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9781463240257
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Studies in Early Christianity and Patristics
Volume: 70
This book explores the apocalyptic influence upon the Two Ways metaphor in antiquity and more particularly the influence of the Two Ways in the Didache as veering from an apocalyptic worldview. The argument includes essential critical evaluation o... .... Learn More -
Norfolk Gardens and Designed Landscapes [Paperback]
Tom Williamson (Author); Roger Last (Author); Patsy Dallas (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781911188308
Published by : Windgather Press
This beautifully produced volume, the outcome of many decades of research, is a celebration of Norfolk’s particularly rich heritage of parks and gardens. It provides a detailed exploration of the history of gardening and landscape architecture in ... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Yew: A History of Taxus Baccata [Paperback]
Robert Bevan-Jones (Author)
Regular Price: £29.95
Special Price: £12.95
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ISBN: 9781785700781
Published by : Windgather Press
The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past.... .... Learn More -
Shades of Green: An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce [Paperback]
Ruth Tittensor (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909686779
Published by : Windgather Press
Sitka spruce has contributed to the Pacific Coast landscapes of North America for over ten millennia. For the Tlingit First Nationit is the most important tree in terms of spiritual relationships, art, and products in daily use such as canoes, con... .... Learn More -
Offa's Dyke: Landscape & Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain [Paperback]
Keith Ray (Author); Ian Bapty (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119356
Published by : Windgather Press
The massive ancient linear earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we st... .... Learn More
