Heaven: A Traveller’s Guide to the Undiscovered Country. Peter Stanford

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       EPIGRAPH

       ‘The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns …’

      SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet (Act III, Scene 1)

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

List of Illustrations

Introduction

PART ONE Knowledge of Angels

1 Dust to Dust

Traveller’s Tales: 1

2 Come Back and Finish What You Started

3 But Not Life as We Know it

4 The Compensation Culture

       5 Fly Me to the Moon

       PART TWO And the Soul Goes Marching On

       6 Safe in My Garden

       Traveller’s Tales: 2

       7 Space Oddity

       8 Star-Man

       9 Tomorrow’s World

       10 If Paradise Was Half as Nice

       Traveller’s Tales: 3

       11 A Delectable Death

       12 Reach for the Sky

       PART THREE Above Us, Only Sky

       13 The Borderlands

       Traveller’s Tales: 4

       14 I Hear You Knocking

       15 Speaking Words of Wisdom?

       16 Man is What He Eats

       17 The Sound of Silence

       18 Through the Keyhole

       19 An Indian Summer

       20 A Village in Heaven

       Traveller’s Tales: 5

       21 But I’ve Never Been to Me

       Source Notes

       Index

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Praise

       Other Works

       Copyright

       About the Publisher