THE DEVIL'S ATLAS - AN EXPLORER'S GUIDE TO HEAVENS, HELLS AND AFTERWORLDS - SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING

BROOKE-HITCHING Edward

ISBN 10: 139850355X / ISBN 13: 9781398503557

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, London, 2021

Beschreibung

Signed by Edward Brooke-Hitching to the Title Page. The Book & Dust Jacket are in As New condition. This unread book is guaranteed to be a 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Publishers number sequence 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 confirms that this is a first printing. The Jacket, which has not been price clipped, is protected by archival protective covering. The book is professionally wrapped and packed with great care with bubble wrap and placed in a special book box to ensure that the book arrives at your destination in perfect condition.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 009212

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: THE DEVIL'S ATLAS - AN EXPLORER'S GUIDE TO HEAVENS, HELLS AND AFTERWORLDS - SIGNED FIRST EDITION FIRST PRINTING
• Verlag: Simon & Schuster, London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 139850355X
• ISBN-13: 9781398503557
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Druck: 1st Printing
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New
• Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • The Natural World
  • Humanity
  • History

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Whether it's the thirteen heavens of the Aztecs, the Chinese Taoist netherworld of 'hungry ghosts', or the 'Hell of the Flaming Rooster' of Japanese Buddhist mythology (in which sinners are tormented by an enormous fire-breathing cockerel), The Devil's Atlas gathers together a wonderful variety of beliefs and representations of life after death. These afterworlds are illustrated with an unprecedented collection of images, ranging from the marvellous 'infernal cartography' of the European Renaissance artists attempting to map the structured Hell described by Dante and the decorative Islamic depictions of Paradise to the various efforts to map the Garden of Eden and the spiritual vision paintings of nineteenth-century mediums.

The Devil's Atlas accompanies beautiful images with a highly readable trove of surprising facts and narratives, from the more inventive torture methods awaiting sinners, to colourful eccentric catalogues of demons, angels and assorted death deities. A traveller's guide to worlds that may or may not exist, The Devil's Atlas is a fascinating study of the boundless capacity of human invention, a visual chronicle of man's hopes, fears and fantasies of what lies beyond.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Edward Brooke-Hitching is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling books The Phantom Atlas (2016), The Golden Atlas (2018), The Sky Atlas (2019), The Madman's Library (2020) and The Devil's Atlas (2021), all of which have been translated into numerous languages; he is also the author of Fox Tossing, Octopus Wrestling and Other Forgotten Sports (2015). He is a writer for the BBC series QI. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an incurable cartophile, he lives surrounded by dusty heaps of old maps and books in Berkshire.