Undiscovered Country

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We know what happens to the body when we die but what happens to the soul? The answer may remain a great unknown but the question has shaped centuries of tradition folklore & religious belief. In this vivid history of the macabre Carl Watkins goes in search of the ancient customs local characters & compelling tales that illuminate how people over the years have come to terms with our ultimate fate. He discovers what a small Norfolk church has to tell us about the apocalypse; why the greatest minds of the seventeenth century were embroiled in debate over the phantom Drummer of Tedworth; & how a nineteenth-century Welsh Druid completely changed the national view of cremation. The result is an enthralling journey into Britain's past from medieval hauntings on the Yorkshire moors & eccentric memorials on the Cornish coast to seances in Victorian kitchens & gallows tales from a Bristol gaol. Impeccably researched & elegantly told The Undiscovered Country ventures beyond the veil to bring the dead back to life.