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

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 18thcentury 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.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Cooke, Cooke Jack, JACK COOKE
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780008294717
• ISBN: 978-0-00-829471-7
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; 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