A General History of Labyrinths
Ranked #93 in Five
Written during the first years of his impending blindness, this elegant book is a masterwork of scholarship. Adding to its appeal are the hauntingly beautiful illustrations, all provided by Haslam's wife Anna, a Viennese art student who was later treated for schizophrenia and died in an English sanitarium three years after his death. Starting with a discussion of labyrinthine symbolism seen in prehistoric cave paintings, Haslam traces the development of the labyrinth through Celtic neolithic spirals to the mythic "lost labyrinth" of the Chinese governor Ts'ui Pen. No stone is left unturned as... more
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