The Devil's Atlas av Edward Brooke-Hitching

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<B>'Very beautiful and illuminating' Mariella Frostrup<BR/> Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller <I>The Phantom Atlas</I> delivers an atlas unlike any other. <I>The Devil’s Atlas</I> is an illustrated guide to the heavens, hells and lands of the dead as imagined throughout history by cultures and religions around the world. Packed with colourful maps, paintings and captivating stories, the reader is taken on a compelling tour of the geography, history and supernatural populations of the afterworlds of cultures around the globe.</B><BR/><BR/> Whether it’s the thirteen heavens of <B>the Aztecs</B>, the Chinese <B>Taoist netherworld</B> of ‘hungry ghosts’, or the ‘Hell of the Flaming Rooster’ of <B>Japanese Buddhist mythology</B> (in which sinners are tormented by an enormous fire-breathing cockerel), <I>The Devil’s Atlas</I> gathers together a wonderful variety of beliefs and repr