FIRE Fascination Festival and Firework .
The celebration of fireworks and the British autumn fire festival tradition
FIRE explores how an ancient Pagan festival has given rise to Halloween and Bonfire Night, two of our most evocative and lasting celebrations. The book looks at gunpowder, and how it helped shape the surface of our planet as well as give us the mesmerising world of pyrotechnics. It looks too at how history has taken Guy Fawkes from being a hated villain to being the icon of the digital age and the grinning face of Firework Night. Remembered too are the companies of a lost industry that once made November their own.
FIRE is a celebration of a time of the year, a lost way of life, and our lasting fascination for fireworks and flame.
109 pages. 286 illustrations. Formatted for ideal viewing on iPad and similar tablets
The celebration of fireworks and the British autumn fire festival tradition
FIRE explores how an ancient Pagan festival has given rise to Halloween and Bonfire Night, two of our most evocative and lasting celebrations. The book looks at gunpowder, and how it helped shape the surface of our planet as well as give us the mesmerising world of pyrotechnics. It looks too at how history has taken Guy Fawkes from being a hated villain to being the icon of the digital age and the grinning face of Firework Night. Remembered too are the companies of a lost industry that once made November their own.
FIRE is a celebration of a time of the year, a lost way of life, and our lasting fascination for fireworks and flame.
109 pages. 286 illustrations. Formatted for ideal viewing on iPad and similar tablets
