{"product_id":"devils-atlas","title":"Devils Atlas","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Very beautiful and illuminating' Mariella Frostrup\u003cbr\u003e Edward Brooke-Hitching, author of the international bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Phantom Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e delivers an atlas unlike any other. \u003ci\u003eThe Devil’s Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whether it’s the thirteen heavens of \u003cb\u003ethe Aztecs\u003c\/b\u003e, the Chinese \u003cb\u003eTaoist netherworld\u003c\/b\u003e of ‘hungry ghosts’, or the ‘Hell of the Flaming Rooster’ of \u003cb\u003eJapanese Buddhist mythology\u003c\/b\u003e (in which sinners are tormented by an enormous fire-breathing cockerel), \u003ci\u003eThe Devil’s Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e gathers together a wonderful variety of beliefs and representations of life after death. These afterworlds are illustrated with an unprecedented collection of images, ranging from the marvellous ‘infernal cartography’ of the European Renaissance artists attempting to map the structured Hell described by Dante and the decorative Islamic depictions of Paradise to the various efforts to map the Garden of Eden and the spiritual vision paintings of nineteenth-century mediums.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Devil’s Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e accompanies beautiful images with a highly readable trove of surprising facts and narratives, from the more inventive torture methods awaiting sinners, to colourful eccentric catalogues of demons, angels and assorted death deities. \u003cb\u003eA traveller’s guide to worlds unseen, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil’s Atlas\u003c\/i\u003e is a fascinating study of the boundless capacity of human invention, a visual chronicle of man’s hopes, fears and fantasies of what lies beyond.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57315402252670,"sku":"NW9781398503557","price":18.42,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781398503557.jpg?v=1778679778","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/devils-atlas","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}