The devil s atlas

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A lavishly illustrated guide to how humanity has imagined heavens, hells and the afterlife



'Very beautiful and illuminating' Mariella Frostrup
Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller The Phantom Atlas delivers an atlas unlike any other. The Devil’s Atlas is an illustrated guide to the heavens, hells and lands of the dead as imagined throughout history by cultures and religions around the world. Packed with colourful maps, paintings and captivating stories, the reader is taken on a compelling tour of the geography, history and supernatural populations of the afterworlds of cultures around the globe.

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 unseen, 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.

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Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 14 oktober 2021

Aantal pagina's: 256

Kaarten inbegrepen: Nee

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Edward Brooke-Hitching

Hoofduitgeverij: Simon & Schuster Ltd

Originele titel: The Devil's Atlas: An Explorer's Guide to Heavens, Hells and Afterworlds

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

Dyslexievriendelijk: Nee

Editie: 1st edition

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 189 mm

Product hoogte: 26 mm

Product lengte: 246 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 185 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 28 mm

Verpakking lengte: 251 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 1082 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9781398503557

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