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Buried Alive
The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear
Taschenbuch von Jan Bondeson
Sprache: Englisch

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Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales-just think of The Premature Burial-may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrific, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one hundred people were buried before they were dead. With over fifty illustrations, Buried Alive explores the medicine, folklore, history, and literature of Europe and the United States to uncover why such fears arose and whether they were warranted. "A weird and wonderful little tome."-[...] "Bondeson weaves a strange disturbing, and weirdly enthralling tale. Cremation never sounded so good."-Lingua Franca "A most useful and entertaining book....Deserves a place on every bedside table in America."-Patrick McGrath, author of Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution
Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales-just think of The Premature Burial-may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrific, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one hundred people were buried before they were dead. With over fifty illustrations, Buried Alive explores the medicine, folklore, history, and literature of Europe and the United States to uncover why such fears arose and whether they were warranted. "A weird and wonderful little tome."-[...] "Bondeson weaves a strange disturbing, and weirdly enthralling tale. Cremation never sounded so good."-Lingua Franca "A most useful and entertaining book....Deserves a place on every bedside table in America."-Patrick McGrath, author of Martha Peake: A Novel of the Revolution
Über den Autor
Jan Bondeson, a physician, holds a Ph.D. in experimental medicine and works at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 322
ISBN-13: 9780393322224
ISBN-10: 039332222X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bondeson, Jan
Hersteller: W. W. Norton & Company
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Jan Bondeson
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2002
Gewicht: 0,525 kg
preigu-id: 104493849
Über den Autor
Jan Bondeson, a physician, holds a Ph.D. in experimental medicine and works at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Genre: Allgemeine Lexika
Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 322
ISBN-13: 9780393322224
ISBN-10: 039332222X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Bondeson, Jan
Hersteller: W. W. Norton & Company
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Jan Bondeson
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2002
Gewicht: 0,525 kg
preigu-id: 104493849
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