Buried Alive

The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear

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Jan Bondeson

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Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales?ust think of The Premature Burial?ay comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical journals as well as fiction, and fear in the populace was high. It was speculated, from the number of skeletons found in horrific, contorted positions inside their coffins, that ten out of every one hundred people were buried before they were dead. With over fifty illustrations, Buried Alive explores the medicine, folklore, history, and literature of Europe and the United States to uncover why such fears arose and whether they were warranted.

Author Biography:

Jan Bondeson, a physician, holds a Ph.D. in experimental medicine and works at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology in London.

Release date NZ

March 26th, 2002

Author

Jan Bondeson

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

More than 50 illustrations

Pages

322

Dimensions

157x211x23

ISBN-13

9780393322224

Product ID

4357960

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