Misc. books

MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS

Secrets of the Maze: An Interactive Guide to the World's Most Amazing Mazes, by Adrian Fisher and Howard Loxton
Website: www.mazemaker.com

The Art of the Maze, by Adrian Fisher and Georg Gerster
Adrian Fisher is the world's foremost maze maker. To the British, everything is a maze, even if it is unicursal. The author is mostly involved with multi-cursal designs.
Website: www.mazemaker.com

The Path Through the Labyrinth, by Marian Green
This isn't about labyrinths. It's about how to find one's way through the Western esoteric tradition. Like many books, "labyrinth" is only in the title, or perhaps referred to once or twice. A search at any library will turn up hundreds of books that use labyrinthine as an adjective for complexity and confusion.

The Labyrinth of the World and the Paradise of the Heart, by John Amos Comenius
Neither is this book about labyrinths. It was written in the 17th century using the labyrinth as an allegory. This was one of the seminal books in the origination of the Rosicrucian Order. I believe that Father Rapp, who built the original hedge maze in New Harmony, Indiana, in 1814, knew this book and was influenced by it.

Larry's Party, by Carol Shields
This is a novel by an award-winning Canadian author. The protagonist becomes a maze maker. The author died last year of cancer. Her memorial is going to be a labyrinth.

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