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This is the site report from the excavation of the North cemetery in Corinth and represents a continuation of the report from the 1929 season, which began the excavation.
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Este libro reúne una serie de muy particulares crónicas de viajes por medio mundo. La autora recorre países y continentes para visitar algo muy concreto y acaso inusual: cementerios. Desfilan por estas páginas camposantos célebres y cargados de historia como el de Montparnasse de París, el de Highgate en Londres o el cementerio judío de Praga, y otros recónditos, decrépitos, remotos o secretamente bellos. Asoman tumbas de personajes famosos -la de Elvis en Memphis, la de Marx en Londres...-, epitafios extravagantes, esculturas dolientes, ángeles sensuales, rastros de vudú en Nueva Orleans, escritores románticos, criptas góticas, catacumbas, esqueletos, vampiros, fantasmas y una inagotable retahíla de leyendas e historias: el poeta enterrado de pie, la tumba del caballo fiel, el cementerio inundado... Publicado por primera vez por la editorial Galerna en Argentina en 2014, la presente edición incorpora nuevos paseos, y los dieciséis cementerios originales pasan a ser aquí veinticuatro. Este libro singularísimo puede tener cierto aroma macabro, pero va mucho más allá, con sus pinceladas de humor, sus referencias literarias y su desinhibida crónica de andanzas personales que incluyen la búsqueda en La Habana del misteriosamente desaparecido guitarrista de los Manic Street Preachers. Una propuesta heterodoxa y brillantísima que nos invita a adentrarnos en los secretos de los cementerios y que es además una puerta de entrada al universo literario de Mariana Enriquez, convertida ya por derecho propio en una autora fundamental de la literatura de terror del siglo XXI.
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'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...
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The publication presents an introductory study summarizing the history of the Ďáblice Cemetery in Prague since its inception in 1912. Special attention is paid to the burial of opponents and victims of the Nazi occupation regime and the communist dictatorship in a common burial ground at the northern wall of the cemetery in 1943–1961. The publication contains a list of the buried, a reconstruction of possible numbering of the shafts, or an analysis of the current memorial area above the burial ground from the mid-1990s.
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