The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead

Synopsis

The Author Goes In Search Of The Ancient Customs, Local Characters And Tales That Illuminate How People Over The Years Have Come To Terms With Our Ultimate Fate. He Discovers What A Small Suffolk Church Has To Tell Us About The Apocalypse; Why The Greatest Minds Of The Seventeenth Century Were Embroiled In Debate Over The Phantom Drummer Of Tedworth; And How A Nineteenth-century Welsh Druid Completely Changed The National View Of Cremation.--from Book Jacket. The Strange Isles -- Spirit Of Health Or Goblin Damned -- The End Of The Iron World -- Fire And Fleet And Candlelight -- Sure And Certain Hope -- A New America? -- The Sampford Peverell Sensation -- Among The Tombs -- Added Terrors -- Fiery Resolution -- Beyond The Veil -- A Darkling Plain -- The Glorious Dead. Carl Watkins. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.