The Diary of a Resurrectionist, 1811-1812

by James Blake Bailey

As The Butte Daily Post said in 1897, this book is a "gruesome publication." The Diary covers a unique vocation that thrived in the early nineteenth century: Resurrectionist. It was a job created out of a need for anatomy schools to acquire bodies for dissection during lectures. Fresh bodies. And those willing to dig them up were paid handsomely for their morbid efforts. William Burke and William Hare, who you'll read about within these pages, killed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BJ7PHWCM
• ISBN13: 9798986476001
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Curious Publications
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"