A tour of the dominions of the dead: the final resting places of the great and the good, the notorious and the downright nasty throughout the British Isles. As well as taking the reader through well-known sights such as the Glasgow Necropolis, St Paul's Cathedral in London, and Highgate Cemetery (where Karl Marx, George Elliot, Ralph Richardson and Christina Rosetti are buried) this book also visits places known mostly by association with one person: East Coker in Somerset, where T.S. Eliot is buried, or Cholsey in Oxfordshire, last resting place of Agatha Christie. The guide also contains information on the history of burial practices: the resurrectionists, plague pits, the use of quicklime to dissolve unwanted bodies, and promiscuous burial plots where so many people were interred together that the level of the ground rose - with disturbing consequences when heavy rain washed the topsoil away.
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Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Who Lies Where: a Guide to Famous Graves (A Guardian book) This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. . N° de réf. du vendeur 7719-9781857022582
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Paperback. Etat : VG+/VG+/ND. y 1st Edn, 1st. Imp. Sage Publications Ltd, 1998-02-05. 1st Edn, 1st. Imp. VG+/VG+/ND. Box X28 SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. FNL.* Date of Publication: 1998* Publisher: Fourth Estate.* Binding and cover condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated soft card covers showing a headless statue. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear, no reading creases to spine or hinge. Some label damage to top front cover. Seems lightly used if at all. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Some slight paper colouration to page edges and margins. No other visible faults. VG+* Illustrations: A few l/dwn vignettes within text. * Pages: 391 pp. text. xxv pp. index & blank pages at rear.* Product Description:- Who lies Where is the final chapter in the lives of the famous and a guide to the wonderful world of the dead in all its quirkiness, character, variety, humour and pathos. With tales from London, Edinburgh, Dublin and Cardiff to the sacred sites of Glastonbury and Barsey Island, and visiting graveyards as famous as Highgate or the Necropolis of Glasgow, Michael Kerrigan reports on the deaths, last wishes and burials of a vast array of Britons: from eighth-century kings to twentieth-century kings of comedy, feted socialists to flamboyant Satanists. This is a NEAR VG++ text copy of the 1st./1st. fnl. with slight age and wear reducing it to VG+.* 0 416 pp. 1998-02-05. n. N° de réf. du vendeur 9067
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