The Devil's Atlas. An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds. First Printing. Signed by Author. NEW

Brooke-Hitching, Edward

ISBN 10: 139850355X ISBN 13: 9781398503557

Verlag: London. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2021

Sprache: Englisch

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London. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd. 2021. First Edition/First Printing (full number line including 1 to copyright page). Hard Cover. Medium 8vo . 6.5 x 9.3 inches (16.5cm x 23.4cm) approx. 245 pp. Black cloth boards with metallic red titles to the spine. Lavishly produced book with richly decorated colour endpapers. Front cover of dust wrapper shows 'Mankind's Eternal Dilemma. The Choice between Virtue and Vice'. 1633. Rear wrap shows Bruegel's 'the Fall of the Rebel Angels'. Book and jacket are both in fine condition. The book is gorgeously illustrated throughout and published on quality stock. Flat signed by the author without dedication to the illustrated half title. Scarce in signed state. 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. It 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.

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Titel

The Devil's Atlas. An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds. First Printing. Signed by Author. NEW

Verlag

London. Simon & Schuster UK Ltd

Ver�ffentlichungsdatum

2021

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

139850355X

ISBN-13

9781398503557

Bindung

Hardcover

Ausgabe

1st Edition

Zustand

Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

As New

Signiert

Signed by Author(s)

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arts, artists, religion

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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.

�ber 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.

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