Death's Acre - Inside The Legendary Forensic Lab - The Body Farm - Where The Dead Do Tell Tales - Softcover

Bill Bass; Jon Jefferson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316725285 ISBN 13: 9780316725286

Publisher: Putnam Pub Group, 2004

Synopsis

Title: Death's Acre( Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales) <>Binding: Paperback <>Author: BillBass <>Publisher: BerkleyPublishingGroup

About this title

About the Author:

Dr William Bass is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, where he established the 'body farm' in 1981. He is recognised as the world's leading forensic anthropologist. Jon Jefferson is a journalist and producer with the National Geographic Channel.

Review:

'Bass's moving account is a surprisingly accessible read.' THE TIMES 'It embraces some of the great issues: the perpetual conflict of good versus evil, and the human virtues of enthusiasm, commitment and intellectual inquiry. It just happens, also, to be extremely well written.' James Le Fanu, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Blackly funny and unsparing in its clinical detail, this is a fascinating documentary of forensic research as well as an eye-opening adjunct to the novels of murder and mayhem to which we are addicted.' GOOD BOOK GUIDE 'Sensitively written.' INK '[The book] delves into Dr Bass's own life, loves, and losses, giving a picture of a man who's a visionary scientist, brilliant slueth, eloquent advocate for murder victims and a surprisingly funny human being. Bass may deal with the dead, but he has a lust for life that coms across in his writing.' EVENING ECHO 'For those with a strong stomach it's compulsive reading.' WHAT'S ON LONDON

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Pub Group
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0316725285
• ISBN 13: 9780316725286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320