Title: In search of the immortals : mummies, death and the afterlife /
Authors: Reid, Howard.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Attitude to Death; Mummies; Mummies.; Ice mummies.; Bog bodies.; Mummies History; Death Psychological aspects; Dead; Future life.
Abstract: Reid examines mummies from around the world, including South America, the Taklamakan desert in China, peat bogs in northern Europe and in the Canary Islands.
Contents: Central Asia : the riddle in the sands -- Siberia : ice mummies of the nomads -- Northwest Europe : bodies in the bogs -- Egypt : land of immortality -- Canary Islands : last mummy-makers of the Old World -- Between the Old World and the New -- Coastal Chile and Peru : the first mummy-makers -- Coastal Peru : valleys of the dead -- Peruvian Andes : in the sacred mountains.