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.
Κατασκευαστής
- Συγγραφέας
- Edward Brooke-Hitching
- Εκδότης
- Simon & Schuster
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Είδος
- Γενική Ιστορία
- Θέμα
- Ιστορία της Ευρώπης
- Γλώσσα
- Αγγλικά
- Εξώφυλλο
- Σκληρό
- Αριθμός σελίδων
- 256
- Ημερομηνία Κυκλοφορίας
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- Έτος έκδοσης
- 2021
- Διαστάσεις
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781398503557
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