The End of the Road - A journey around Britain in search of the dead

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Cooke, Cooke Jack
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780008294700
• ISBN: 978-0-00-829470-0
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 227 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, Coping with death & bereavement, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, Archaeology, Psychology of ageing, Social and cultural history, True stories of discovery, Classic Travel Writing, Sociology: death and dying, Sociology: Death & Dying, Mortuary practice, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Journey;Trek