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Author : Scott Stanton
Release : 2003-09
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 307/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Tombstone Tourist by : Scott Stanton
Download or read book The Tombstone Tourist written by Scott Stanton. This book was released on 2003-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a guide to the shrines, graves, and memorabilia of jazz, blues, country, rhythm and blues, and rock musicians.
Author : Terisa E. Gigiel
Release : 2022-05-13
Genre : Travel
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 146/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Tombstone Tourist in Cuba by : Terisa E. Gigiel
Download or read book The Tombstone Tourist in Cuba written by Terisa E. Gigiel. This book was released on 2022-05-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tombstone Tourist In Cuba immerses you in a world that is rich in history, culture, and religion. In this book of photography, you will take a detour from the beaten path of beach resorts and discover this storied Caribbean nation via its cemeteries and monuments. Here you will learn about how the country’s population celebrates, pays tribute to, and mourns its people. This book explores the symbolism and historical significance of different tombs, crypts, and monuments. Amid the marble pathways, pink bougainvillea, and intricately carved monuments are powerful reminders of lives lived. Some tombs tell the story of a person who has risen to mythical levels, while others demonstrate the honour afforded people who died under tragic circumstances. A gravesite can tell you so much about people: who they were, what they represented, how they were loved . . . But this book is not just a guided tour of Cuba’s many and varied cemeteries. It is a photographic journey into the heart of a nation. Through these stories and images, you will uncover a side to the people and the country that you may never have otherwise come to learn. And who knows? Perhaps you’ll take a detour of your own, the next time you travel, and explore a cemetery for yourself. Why not start with Cuba?
Author : Janice Oberding
Release : 2019-01-23
Genre : Travel
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 295/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tiptoe Through the Tombstones: Confessions of a Tombstone Tourist by : Janice Oberding
Download or read book Tiptoe Through the Tombstones: Confessions of a Tombstone Tourist written by Janice Oberding. This book was released on 2019-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visiting cemeteries is not for everyone. Only those who appreciate the art, the stories, the legends and the history behind cemetery gates will understand and appreciate what it means to be a tombstone tourist. Author Janice Oberding is definitely a tombstone tourist. In these adventures she brings the reader along as she, her husband and her friends, seek history, ghosts and the unexplained while experiencing cemeteries throughout the country.
Author : Loren Rhoads
Release : 2017-10-24
Genre : Travel
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 790/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die by : Loren Rhoads
Download or read book 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die written by Loren Rhoads. This book was released on 2017-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hauntingly beautiful travel guide to the world's most visited cemeteries, told through spectacular photography andtheir unique histories and residents. More than 3.5 million tourists flock to Paris's Pè Lachaise cemetery each year.They are lured there, and to many cemeteries around the world, by a combination of natural beauty, ornate tombstones and crypts, notable residents, vivid history, and even wildlife. Many also visit Mount Koya cemetery in Japan, where 10,000 lanterns illuminate the forest setting, or graveside in Oaxaca, Mexico to witness Day of the Dead fiestas. Savannah's Bonaventure Cemetery has gorgeous night tours of the Southern Gothic tombstones under moss-covered trees that is one of the most popular draws of the city. 199 Cemeteries to See Before You Die features these unforgettable cemeteries, along with 196 more, seen in more than 300 photographs. In this bucket list of travel musts, author Loren Rhoads, who hosts the popular Cemetery Travel blog, details the history and features that make each destination unique. Throughout will be profiles of famous people buried there, striking memorials by noted artists, and unusual elements, such as the hand carved wood grave markers in the Merry Cemetery in Romania.
Author : Wm. B. Shillingberg
Release : 2016-02-19
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 098/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tombstone, A.T. by : Wm. B. Shillingberg
Download or read book Tombstone, A.T. written by Wm. B. Shillingberg. This book was released on 2016-02-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once nearly forgotten, Tombstone, Arizona, is trapped in myth and legend. Walking its quiet streets, one finds it hard to separate truth from illusion and remember this was a real town, not some Hollywood fantasy. Tombstone’s rough and rowdy exploits were reported from San Francisco to New York. William B. Shillingberg rediscovers the real Tombstone in this historical tour-de-force. The rough mining town of boomers and investors, of hard men and women seeking their fortunes, comes to life with startling clarity. Tombstone, A.T.: A History of Early Mining, Milling, and Mayhem relates true tales of those who founded and built the town, including the infamous Earps and Clantons. Shillingberg details life in a pioneer mining town, from the discoverers of the mines, Edward and Albert Schieffelin and Richard Gird, to the amazing cast of characters in the most celebrated gunfight in western history—the shootout at the OK Corral, between Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, Doc Holliday, and a gang led by Ike Clanton. And tales of John Ringo, Frank Leslie, and diarist George W. Parsons are filled with the famous and the notorious. Today Tombstone slumbers, a shadow of its faded glory, supported by clouded memories and tourist dollars. But the real story remains, and Tombstone, A.T. tells it.
