The End of the Road: A Journey Around Britain in Search of the Dead - Couverture rigide

Cooke, Jack

 
9780008294700: The End of the Road: A Journey Around Britain in Search of the Dead
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ISBN 10 : 0008294704 ISBN 13 : 9780008294700
Editeur : Mudlark, 2021

Synopsis

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, drive around the British Isles in a clapped-out forty-year old hearse in search of famous – and not so famous – tombs, graves and burial sites.

Along the way, he launches a daredevil trespass into Highgate Cemetery at night, stumbles across the remains of the Welsh Druid who popularised cremation and has time to sit and ponder the imponderables at the graveside of the Lady of Hoy, an 18th century suicide victim whose body was kept in near condition by the bog in which she was buried. A truly unique, beautifully written and wonderfully imagined book.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jack Cooke was born in 1985 and lives in London with his wife Jennifer, the book’s illustrator, and his son Bodie. This is his first book.

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Éditeur
Mudlark
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0008294704
ISBN 13 
9780008294700
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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