Description
| Product ID: | 9780008294717 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The End of the Road |
| Subtitle: | A Journey Around Britain in Search of the Dead |
| Authors: | Author: Jack Cooke |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | True stories of discovery, True stories: discovery / historical / scientific, History of other geographical groupings and regions, Social and cultural history, Archaeology, Sociology: death and dying, Psychology of ageing, Mortuary practice, Coping with / advice about death and bereavement, Classic travel writing, History of other lands, Social & cultural history, Archaeology, Sociology: death & dying, Psychology of ageing, Mortuary practice, Coping with death & bereavement, Classic travel writing |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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.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 18th century 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Mudlark |
| Publisher Name: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-17 |
