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Until this book was published, there has not been a good text about the development and proliferation of pet cemeteries. Faithful Unto Death is beautifully illustrated by the author's photos. It's full of stories that will tug the heartstrings of anyone who has loved an animal. Ultimately, its message of love between human and animal companion is uplifting. The book would make a wonderful gift.
The remarkable stories of beloved pets - from the famous and unusual to the everyday - memorialized at burial sites around the world, accompanied by a rich selection of archival photos and the author's evocative images of their final resting places.
When a little dog named Cherry died in 1881, his owners arranged for a grave in a nearby gatekeeper's garden in London. At this time, the idea that a pet, even one that had lived as a family member, might be given a dignified burial was considered comical. But when other pet owners, likewise determined to memorialize their companion…
The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.
The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.
Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…
This is the first history of death in America that explores the longest cemetery in the world: the Overland Trail that connected the West Coast with America the other side of the Mississippi River. Hamburg explains how the massive number of hastily dug graves along the trail dissolved the mourning rituals practiced in the rest of the country, to be magnified by the cheapness of life in Gold Rush-era California. When San Francisco decided to erase its cemeteries in the 20th century -- despite the graves of its founding fathers -- no trace of respect for the dead remained. This is a grim but fascinating book.
Living in America, we are often confronted by our past. But those in San Francisco literally come face-to-face with it. At the turn of the twentieth century, a 1901 decree ordered the exhumation and relocation of over 150,000 graves in the city - the only major metropolitan city in America to order a complete eviction of its dead. American Exhumation uncovers this fascinating and forgotten section of American history.
The epic San Francisco cemetery battle is waged over a century, replete with fiery polemics, political intrigue, nasty legal wrangling, and contested elections. Public cemeteries are dispatched quickly but - as…
