A Tomb With a View - The Stories and Glories of Graveyards

'His stories are always a joy' - Ian Rankin 'I'm a card-carrying admirer of Peter Ross' - Robert Macfarlane Award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards. Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning journalist Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of Britain's best graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? How did a thousand skulls come to be stacked beneath a church in Kent? Why is the music hall star who sang I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside buried on a hillside in Glasgow far from the sound of the silvery sea? All of these sorrowful mysteries - and many more - are answered in A Tomb With A View, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath. So push open the rusting gate, push back the ivy, and take a look inside...

Product details

• Authors: Peter Ross
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781472267788
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-6778-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic; Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Religious, Travel writing, Social and cultural history, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology: death and dying