A beautiful collection of photographs from cemeteries throughout the world. I enjoyed the small snippets of facts and historical information that accompanied the photos and appreciated them being organised by location.

One star deducted as I would have liked a little bit more information about the cemeteries. However I would recommend as an easily accessible book to revisit.

Thanks to Amber Books and NetGalley for the ARC.

I loved this book. Such gorgeous, clear photographs from around the world. Even though the text is pretty short, it's full of interesting history and culture. I think the saddest ones were the ones where there were a lot of soldiers who never made it back home and people who had to move away from their families because of disease epidemics and never made it home.
This is a great coffee table book and anyone who enjoys history and travel will love it too. I learned where several people I'm a big fan of are buried. Thanks to NetGalley for letting me read this

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an early copy of this book.

Some places had beautiful photographs whereas others had photographs that made it look like any random cemetery.

I wish the sites were extensively discussed especially since there wasn't an easy way to tell the difference between one cemetery and another.

A wonderful look at different graveyards from all continents! It was so interesting to see the similarities and differences! Great pictures and some lovely, interesting factoids. I would have liked to see a little more of the New Orleans cemeteries and I would have liked to see Hollywood Cemetery in Richmone, Virginia

I love strolling through cemeteries, the quiet, the beauty of the stones and the bits of history sprinkled throughout are hard to resist. Horner’s book takes readers through the cemeteries of the world, from the creepy to the sublime

If I could give this beautiful book 6 stars...I would!
I was absolutely captivated by it's incredible photography and content.

A must have for all Taphophile's.
A real conversation starter as a Coffee Table book.
Perfect for history lovers.
Something of a Travel Book, sending you to far flung places with its photographic locations.

I honestly cannot praise this fascinating book enough.

WOW! what an incredible collection of photographs, properly given context, showcasing the ways in which humankind cares for and houses our deceased. For anyone even remotely curious about morbid topics, art, or cultural anthropology, this book would make an incredible addition to your collection. I look forward to buying a physical copy for my shelf of cemetery related nonficiton books.

An interesting coffee table book collection of photos of gravesites from across the world, although about half of that world does seem to consist of Europe in this book, with the Americas taking up another 25% and then the rest of the world squashed into the end. The photos are mostly very beautiful, accompanied by interesting snippets of information about them, and they show the wide variety of ways that the dead are honoured across the world.

Graveyards by Alistair Horne is full of beautiful color photos from burial sites around the world. I have been to several, including military cemeteries, and historical sites in my travels that are featured in this book. The photos are sectioned by world regions and each gets a small blurb of information. I enjoyed looking through it and it is a nice coffee table type book. I don’t know if it is the type of book I would want to look through again and again but I would check it out from a library.

Graveyards is primarily a beautiful collection of photographs showing the huge variety of cemeteries and burial sites across the world. Each of the photographs is captioned to give more detail about the history of the cemetery or who is buried there. The subject of the book is fascinating, and the images are captivating. It is definitely a book to come back to and flip through again and again, although some more detailed information would have been welcome.

Death being a normal part of life, burial sites, ceremonies, rituals and graveyards play an important role in our lives (ironically). Like buildings, graveyards expose our aesthetic choices, values, perspectives.
This book is very rich; it covers many graveyards across the world.
As a reference book, it naturally is full of photographs - it is visually centred.
I liked the range however. I kept wondering if the selected photos were the most representative, the most high quality and creative ones, and the design, layout and the fonts could be better.

This is an absolutely gorgeous collection of photographs from cemeteries around the world. It covers a large number of locations with just a short summary paragraph for each photograph, so it's really just a teaser of each one, but it left me wanting to learn more and do more research once I put the book down. The images are vivid and hauntingly beautiful, with incredible detail. There are several that go beyond standard tombstone and architectural subjects to showcase catacombs, skulls, and mummies strikingly displayed standing in full attire. It is a great candidate for a coffee table book in my house.

Thank you to the publisher for providing me with a free advanced copy on NetGalley.

In general I thought this was a good coffee table book with nice photos, but in a few cases I felt like surely there was a better photo that could have represented this cemetery. For example, St Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans (a city famous for it's cemeteries) had a single photo taken from a drone, so you can't really tell what the cemetery looks like at all and what makes it so famous.

This is a beautiful showcase of cemeteries around the world. It is just simply gorgeous photography along with descriptions, history and a few names of the people of note that are buried there.
I happen to like cemeteries so this book is just a terrific coffee table book for me. Anyone who is interested in where people are buried around the world. This is the book for them.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me this ARC. I do recommend.