Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead by Roger Luckhurst #literature wryly funny and wise' Robert

wryly funny and wise' Robert Macfarlane

they realise how little they knew about her

humanity and the earth itself will perish

From our caveman days to the internet era

Graveyards: A History of Living with the Dead by Roger Luckhurst #literature wryly funny and wise' RobertAn arresting and poignant cultural history of graveyards, from early burial sites to now. Why, how and where do we inter our dead? How do we set out to remember them? The Pyramids of Giza, the catacombs and columbaria of Rome and the cenotaphs erected to the worlds war dead are but some of the answers. In inimitable style, Roger Luckhurst probes the often moving, sometimes contested ways in which people throughout history have responded to the problem