The Victorian Book of the Dead - Chris Woodyard
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KORTE INHOUD
"Chris Woodyard, author of the The Ghosts of the Past series, digs through long-buried newspapers and journals, for this fascinating look at the 19th-century obsession with the culture of death. The Victorian Book of the Dead unearths extraordinary tales of Victorian funeral fads and fancies, ghost stories, bizarre deaths, mourning novelties, gallows humor, premature burial, post-mortem photographs, death omens, and funeral disasters. Resurrected from original sources, these accounts reveal the oddities and...
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2014 Uitgever: Kestrel Publications 360 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0988192527 ISBN-13: 9780988192522Koop dit boek tweedehands
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