The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds

ISBN-13: 9781398503557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 256 str.

Edward Brooke-Hitching

Opis

A lavishly illustrated guide to how humanity has imagined heavens, hells and the afterlife

Recenzje

'A funny and phantasmagoric tour of humanity's attempts to survey the afterlife, both high and low. If you'd like to know which author wrote about the bordellos in hell, where to find a tree that grows devil heads, or what angels' houses might smell like, this book is for you.' Bess Lovejoy, author of Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses

O autorze

Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books The Phantom Atlas (2016), The Golden Atlas (2018), The Sky Atlas (2019), The Madman's Library (2020) and The Devil's Atlas (2021), all of which have been translated into numerous languages; he is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in Berkshire.