A fascinating world tour of famous graves, from Marilyn Monroe to Winston Churchill
From the lipstick-covered memorial of Marilyn Monroe to the tent-shaped tomb of explorer Richard Burton - a fascinating world tour of famous gravesGraves of the Great and Famous offers a world tour of the graves of the famous Some are buried in many great mausoleums, others buried in country cemeteriesHere we present 20 with author captions...
This is serious business - but fascinating nonetheless.
The recent publication of Graves of the Great and Famous (Amber Books) by Alastair Horne offers "a world tour of the resting places of artists, thinkers, scientists, sportsmen, revolutionaries, politicians and leading pioneers".
What makes the tome particularly intriguing is the wide variety of burial sites explored.
As the editor says, “Some, like communist leaders Ho Chi Minh and Vladimir Lenin, are buried in grand mausoleums, where they are visited by millions every year; others are buried in little-known country cemeteries.
'The book provides a guide to some of the most famous and unusual graves of the great and vouchers. '
The book presents 150 photographs of tombs, cemeteries, cemeteries and mausoleums. We present here 20 of them with captions courtesy of the author.
This is serious business - but fascinating nonetheless.
The recent publication of Graves of the Great and Famous (Amber Books) by Alastair Horne offers "a world tour of the resting places of artists, thinkers, scientists, sportsmen, revolutionaries, politicians and leading pioneers".
What makes the tome particularly intriguing is the wide variety of burial sites explored.
As the editor says, “Some, like communist leaders Ho Chi Minh and Vladimir Lenin, are buried in grand mausoleums, where they are visited by millions every year; others are buried in little-known country cemeteries.
'The book provides a guide to some of the most famous and unusual graves of the great and vouchers. '
The book presents 150 photographs of tombs, cemeteries, cemeteries and mausoleums. We present here 20 of them with captions courtesy of the author.
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