Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel Contributor(s): Rhoads, Loren (Author) |
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ISBN: 0963679465 ISBN-13: 9780963679468 Publisher: Automatism Press OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - Reference | Curiosities & Wonders - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 304 pages |
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Publisher Description: Nearly every tourist destination has a graveyard. Yosemite National Park has a graveyard. The Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor and the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park: both graveyards. The #1 tourist destination in Michigan has three cemeteries. America's best-preserved Gold Rush ghost town has five. Gettysburg is a National Park because it has a graveyard. Some graveyards are even tourist destinations in themselves: the Old Jewish Cemetery of Prague, the colonial burying grounds of Boston, and Kennedy's eternal flame in Arlington National Cemetery. Jim Morrison's grave in P re Lachaise Cemetery ranks in the top five tourist sites of Paris and draws a million visitors a year.Wish You Were Here: Adventures in Cemetery Travel contains 35 graveyard travel essays, which visit more than 50 cemeteries, churchyards, and grave sites around the world. |