An extensive look at the cartography and folklore of the afterlife worlds as seen by our ancestors - Examines how ancient European cultures viewed the beyond, including the Blessed Isles of early Greek and Celtic faith, the Hebrew Sheol, Hades from Homer's Odyssey, Hel and Valhalla of the Norse, and the Aralu of Babylon - Shows how medieval accounts of journeys into the Other World represent the first recorded near-death...