Compare Cities of The Dead: world's most beautiful cemeteries

Discover the fascinating stories of the world’s most beautiful cemeteries, featuring spectacular photography, unique histories and famous residents.Cities of the Deadtakes us on a tour of memorial sites, ranging frommonastic settlementstogrand cathedrals,Shinto shrinesGothic chapelstombsandcrypts. Enjoy tales of myths and monsters, grave-robbers, pilgrimages, spiritual retreats, remembrance and community. Marvel in cemeteries with a hundred thousand to a handful of graves which feature famous headstones, weeping angels, ocean views, woodlands, thousands of glowing lanterns and a tomb of poets.FromLondon's famous Highgate Cemetery,which houses famous names from Karl Marx to Malcolm McLaren, George Eliot to Christina Rosetti, toHawaii's breathtaking Valley of the Temples,this book spans the globe to bring you the mostfascinating, intriguing and evocative cemeteries across cultures and continents.Together withevocative images, the stories behind these notable burial sitesbring these sanctuaries to life, detailing the features that make them special, highlighting both similarities and differences between time periods, religions and cultures, and showing how cemeteries are about and for the living as much as the dead.