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Graves of the Great and Famous - From Jane Austen to Elvis Presley (Hardcover)
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Graves of the Great and Famous - From Jane Austen to Elvis Presley (Hardcover)
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List price R606
Loot Price R547
Discovery Miles 5 470
You Save R59 (10%)
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Karl Marx is buried in London, John Keats in Rome and Leon Trotsky
in Mexico. Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is today known for the
graves of Jim Morrison, Victor Hugo and Oscar Wilde, but when it
opened in the early 19th century the owners felt that they needed
some star names to make it a desired burial site - and so they had
Moliere's body transferred there. Arranged thematically into 75
entries, Graves of the Great and Famous tours the world exploring
the resting places of leading artists, thinkers, scientists,
sportspeople, revolutionaries, politicians and pioneers. Some, such
as communist leaders Ho Chi Minh and Vladimir Lenin, are interred
in great mausoleums, where they are visited by millions each year;
others are buried in little-known country graveyards. From lives
cut short through assassinations - Martin Luther King and Abraham
Lincoln - to those who suffered terrible accidents (Princess
Diana), from mobsters such as Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel and John
Gotti to Napoleon and his mistress Marie Walewska, from Nelson
Mandela to Eva Peron, Graceland to Highgate Cemetery, the book
provides a guide to some of the most famous and unusual graves of
the great and the good. Featuring 150 photographs of graves,
cemeteries, graveyards and mausoleums, Graves of the Great and
Famous is a compact guide to the final resting place of the famous
- and infamous.
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