If I could give this beautiful book 6 stars...I would!
I was absolutely captivated by it's incredible photography and content.

A must have for all Taphophile's.
A real conversation starter as a Coffee Table book.
Perfect for history lovers.
Something of a Travel Book, sending you to far flung places with its photographic locations.

I honestly cannot praise this fascinating book enough.

WOW! what an incredible collection of photographs, properly given context, showcasing the ways in which humankind cares for and houses our deceased. For anyone even remotely curious about morbid topics, art, or cultural anthropology, this book would make an incredible addition to your collection. I look forward to buying a physical copy for my shelf of cemetery related nonficiton books.

An interesting coffee table book collection of photos of gravesites from across the world, although about half of that world does seem to consist of Europe in this book, with the Americas taking up another 25% and then the rest of the world squashed into the end. The photos are mostly very beautiful, accompanied by interesting snippets of information about them, and they show the wide variety of ways that the dead are honoured across the world.

Graveyards by Alistair Horne is full of beautiful color photos from burial sites around the world. I have been to several, including military cemeteries, and historical sites in my travels that are featured in this book. The photos are sectioned by world regions and each gets a small blurb of information. I enjoyed looking through it and it is a nice coffee table type book. I don’t know if it is the type of book I would want to look through again and again but I would check it out from a library.

Graveyards is primarily a beautiful collection of photographs showing the huge variety of cemeteries and burial sites across the world. Each of the photographs is captioned to give more detail about the history of the cemetery or who is buried there. The subject of the book is fascinating, and the images are captivating. It is definitely a book to come back to and flip through again and again, although some more detailed information would have been welcome.

Death being a normal part of life, burial sites, ceremonies, rituals and graveyards play an important role in our lives (ironically). Like buildings, graveyards expose our aesthetic choices, values, perspectives.
This book is very rich; it covers many graveyards across the world.
As a reference book, it naturally is full of photographs - it is visually centred.
I liked the range however. I kept wondering if the selected photos were the most representative, the most high quality and creative ones, and the design, layout and the fonts could be better.

This is an absolutely gorgeous collection of photographs from cemeteries around the world. It covers a large number of locations with just a short summary paragraph for each photograph, so it's really just a teaser of each one, but it left me wanting to learn more and do more research once I put the book down. The images are vivid and hauntingly beautiful, with incredible detail. There are several that go beyond standard tombstone and architectural subjects to showcase catacombs, skulls, and mummies strikingly displayed standing in full attire. It is a great candidate for a coffee table book in my house.

Thank you to the publisher for providing me with a free advanced copy on NetGalley.

In general I thought this was a good coffee table book with nice photos, but in a few cases I felt like surely there was a better photo that could have represented this cemetery. For example, St Louis Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans (a city famous for it's cemeteries) had a single photo taken from a drone, so you can't really tell what the cemetery looks like at all and what makes it so famous.

This is a beautiful showcase of cemeteries around the world. It is just simply gorgeous photography along with descriptions, history and a few names of the people of note that are buried there.
I happen to like cemeteries so this book is just a terrific coffee table book for me. Anyone who is interested in where people are buried around the world. This is the book for them.
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for allowing me this ARC. I do recommend.