Over the last decade, mazes have been making the newspaper headlines and
there has been a worldwide explosion in their construction. Not only in
the form of the tradtional turf mazes of medieval times and hedge mazes
such as the one at Hampton Court in the UK but modern mazes made in a
variety of new materials including bricks, mirrors and water jets. Even
enormous maize mazes which are cut out of fields of growing corn and
which last for a single summer season. This book traces the history of
the maze in all its forms and uses a mixture of photographs and drawings
to offer a fascinating insight into them.