num_pages: 128
description: Throughout history some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate dissent war and revolution. They have enlightened outraged provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Written after the discovery of over forty Bronze Age burial urns in seventeenth-century Norfolk Sir Thomas Browne's profound consideration of the inevitability of death remains one of the most fascinating and poignant of all reflections upon the vanity of mankind's lust for immortality.
language: English
title: Urne Burial
publisher: Penguin UK