The Dance of Death Fiction_Gift_Guide UP—TO—DATE COVERAGE ON: Edinburgh

UP—TO—DATE COVERAGE ON: Edinburgh

In this “darkly humorous” (Harper’s Bazaar) memoir-in-essays

Courtney meets you where you are and accompanies you through all kinds of grief

a story of ever higher climbs by figures great and small of mountaineering during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

in the media

The Dance of Death Fiction_Gift_Guide UP—TO—DATE COVERAGE ON: EdinburghAn invaluable new reproduction of Holbeins woodcuts of The Dance of Death One of Hans Holbeins first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride. Each image is packed with drama, wit, and horror, as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the emperor to a ploughman. Taking full advantage of the new literary culture of the early sixteenth century, The Dance of Death