Description
| Product ID: | 9780099587149 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | These Silent Mansions |
| Subtitle: | A life in graveyards |
| Authors: | Author: Jean Sprackland |
| Page Count: | 240 |
| Subjects: | Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings, Memorials, monuments, Museology and heritage studies, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Sociology: death and dying, Human geography, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Museology & heritage studies, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Sociology: death & dying, Human geography, Natural history, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Yet they also reflect their living community - how in our restless, accelerated modern world, we are losing our sense of connection to the dead. Jean Sprackland - the prize-winning poet and author of Strands - travels back through her life, revisiting her once local graveyards. ''A refreshingly original meditation... I wish I had written it myself'' Literary Review |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-02-04 |
