Book lovers! Here’s an odd little blog to read – Burying Books. It’s all about stories of people who placed books in the ground and covered them up, sometimes retrieving them.
Motives vary – neglect, artistic drama, hiding it, penance for allowing their writing to take them away from loved ones.
The blog, which has not been updated since 2015, is purportedly run by archeologist Gabriel Moshenka of The University College London. He writes,
“This blog is for one of my many research interests: buried books. I love books and I own an awful lot of them. The idea of burying books in the ground seems rather odd and interesting.”
A fun little, slightly morbid past time, especially when the books are buried with people. Of course, you’ll find the story of a recent discovery – The Faddan More Psalter, a book dating to the year 800 which was found in a bog in 2006- as well as stories from the past, like Dante Rossetti’s retrieval of poems that he regretted not publishing.
Head on over and see what you think.
Sincerely,
Deborah