Highgate Cemetery: Victorian Valhalla introduced by Felix Barker, photographed by John Gay

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to foredges and inside covers. Body text and binding are still very good.

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, but in many ways it is 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 funeral architecture to be found anywhere, it has also, as nature has gradually taken it over, become a wildlife reserve near the centre of London.

London historian Felix Barker tells the story of this burial ground for the first time and it contains a unique pictorial record of its moods and monuments over the last 20 years.