Paul Koudounaris

Faithful Unto Death

Pet Cemeteries, Animal Graves, and Eternal Devotion

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Produktbeschreibung

The remarkable stories of beloved pets--from the famous and unusual to the everyday--memorialized at burial sites around the world, accompanied by a rich selection of archival photos and the author's evocative images of their final resting places.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 176mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 924g
• ISBN-13: 9780500027516
• ISBN-10: 050002751X
• Artikelnr.: 70163547

Autorenporträt

Paul Koudounaris has a doctorate in Art History from the University of California and has written widely on European ossuaries and charnel houses for both academic and popular journals. He is the author for T&H of The Empire of Death, Memento Mori and Heavenly Bodies, and in 2020 Holt published his A Cat's Tale. Paul is a member of the Order of the Good Death, and has over 100k followers on Instagram.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The rise of the domestic pet and animal burials through the 19th century
2. Urban pet cemeteries in late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe
3. Early pet cemeteries in North America
4. Humans and animals buried together
5. A study of pet cemetery inscriptions
6. Burials of heroic animals
7. Death in Tinseltown
8. Memorials to the world's most faithful animals