Graveyards

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Pub Date 14 Sep 2024 | Archive Date 26 Aug 2024

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Graveyards, burial sites and cemeteries are as old as human civilization, resting places and memorial sites for loved ones, the great and sometimes the infamous. Some of these places retain a poignant atmosphere that tells of heroic or deadly deeds – the 210 men of George Custer’s command are remembered by graves scattered around the memorial marking their defeat at Little Bighorn in Montana, USA. Other, older graveyards retain a haunting quality that tells of the long history of their country and people – the 16th century Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh was soon filled with the bodies of victims of bubonic plague. Graveyards reveals both the universality of death, and the diversity of how we commemorate or memorialize our dead, from the hanging coffins of Sagada, Philippines, where, among the jungle-clad peaks of the stunning Echo Valley, hundreds of wooden coffins are hung from impossibly sheer rock faces, to the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague, testament to the huge Jewish community that lived in the Czech capital before the Holocaust. Readers can marvel at the Cairo Necropolis, known as the ‘City of the Dead’, a series of vast Islamic-era tombs and cemeteries dating back more than a thousand years, and enjoy the Merry Cemetery in Romania, famous for its brightly coloured tombstones with paintings describing, in an original and poetic manner, the lives of the people who are buried there. With detailed captions explaining their history and often ghostly past, Graveyards is a vivid pictorial exploration of the best-known, most-haunted and quirkiest burial places in the world today.

Graveyards, burial sites and cemeteries are as old as human civilization, resting places and memorial sites for loved ones, the great and sometimes the infamous. Some of these places retain a...


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ISBN 9781838864606
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PAGES 224

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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.

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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.

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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.

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