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Rest in Pieces: The Curious fate of Famous Corpses - Softcover

Bess Lovejoy

 
9780715654132: Rest in Pieces: The Curious fate of Famous Corpses
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0715654136 ISBN 13: 9780715654132
Verlag: Duckworth Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

IN THE LONG RUN, WE’RE ALL DEAD.

But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure.

The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated and even filed away in a lawyer's office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs and nether regions have embarked on voyages that criss-cross the globe and stretch the imagination.

Counterfeiters tried to steal Lincoln's corpse. Einstein's brain went on a cross-country road trip. And after Lord Horatio Nelson perished at Trafalgar, his sailors submerged him in brandy – which they drank. From Mozart to Hitler, Rest in Pieces connects the lives of the famous dead to the hilarious and horrifying adventures of their corpses and traces the evolution of cultural attitudes towards death.


**Praise for Rest In Pieces**


A historically beguiling, stranger-than-fiction compendium.'
ELLE

’This wildly entertaining account proves that the fate of the grisly relics tells us a huge amount about history - and ourselves.'
TONY PERROTTET, author of Napoleon’s Privates

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Bess Lovejoy is a writer, researcher and editor. She worked on the Schott's Almanac series for five years, and her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Believer, and the Boston Globe.

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Verlag
Duckworth Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0715654136
ISBN 13 
9780715654132
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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