Academie du Vin Guide to French Wines

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

SPURRIER, Steven

Beverages & Wine

Salem House

A View from a Window

Arts & Photography

Heather-Angel

Photography & Video

Albion : A Guide to Legendary Britain

Religion & Spirituality

JENNIFER WESTWOOD

Occult & Paranormal

Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla

<p>Highgate Cemetery, clinging to the southern slope of Highgate Hill, looks out across London to the Epsom Downs in the distance. It is one of the great cemeteries of the world (to those who know it, one of the Wonders) but in many ways it is also one of the most secret. A maze of rising terraces, winding paths, tombs and catacombs, it is a monument to the Victorian age and to the Victorian attitude to death. Containing some of the most celebrated -- and often most eccentric -- funerary architecture to be found anywhere, it has also, as nature has gradually taken it over, become a wild-life reserve near the centre of London. Now after many years of neglect, the cemetery is being lovingly restored, the dense foliage cut back, nature brought under control and its treasures revealed. In Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla the London historian Felix Barker tells fully and for the first time the story of this burial ground. But, above all, the book contains a unique pictorial record of its moods and its monuments caught over the last twenty years by John Gay whose photographs superbly and evocatively convey the spirit of the place.</p>

History

FELIX BARKER

Europe

The Handbook of Golf

Alex Hay

Mysterious Sea Stories

William Pattrick

The Bicameral Critic

Howard F. Dossor

Wilson,Colin

Religion and the Rebel, Colin Wilson’s second volume from his internationally acclaimed Outsider Cycle, is a casebook about and for rebels. With inspirational wisdom and engaging clarity, Wilson shows us that the purpose of religion, of our personal relationship with the sacred and the all-pervading mystery of existence, is to expand our consciousness and intensify our sense of life. Wilson heroically claims that the power to create meaning resides in our mental and spiritual discipline. Examining the lives and works of Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Rilke, Shaw, Pascal, Swedenborg, Rimbaud and Scott Fitzgerald, among others, Wilson explores the main existential questions and shows how these remarkable writers, scientists, philosophers and poets faced their need for transcendence. Like many of us, they were driven by a need to become more than men. Religion and the Rebel is an outstanding and enjoyable book that combines philosophical analysis, historical interest, and religious insight.

Religion and the rebel

New Age & Spirituality

Niven's Hollywood

HUTCHINSON, Tom

Real Ireland: People & landscape : photographs

Brendan Kennelly

Liam Blake

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