Cracking the Egyptian Code The Revolutionary Life of Jean FranCois Champollion (Hardback) /anglais - Couverture souple

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9780500051719: Cracking the Egyptian Code The Revolutionary Life of Jean FranCois Champollion (Hardback) /anglais
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0500051712 ISBN 13 : 9780500051719
Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

This finely illustrated biography - the first in English - charts Champollion's dramatic life and achievements: how, against the odds, he began to decipher a lost world, led an expedition to Egypt with royal backing, lived in the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, and made the voices of the pharaohs and their subjects speak. Living life to the full, he formed undying friendships and rivalries - but his obsession eventually drove him into an early death, at the age of only 41.

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À propos de l?auteur

Andrew Robinson is the author of twenty-five books in the arts and sciences, nine of them on aspects of Indian history and culture. They include two definitive biographies: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, described by V. S. Naipaul as ‘an extraordinarily good, detailed and selfless book’, and the coauthored Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. He holds degrees from Oxford University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, has been a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This finely illustrated biography - the first in English - charts Champollion's dramatic life and achievements: how, against the odds, he began to decipher a lost world, led an expedition to Egypt with royal backing, lived in the tombs of the Valley of the Kings, and made the voices of the pharaohs and their subjects speak. Living life to the full, he formed undying friendships and rivalries - but his obsession eventually drove him into an early death, at the age of only 41.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0500051712
ISBN 13 
9780500051719
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780199914999: Cracking the Egyptian Code: The Revolutionary Life of Jean-Francois Champollion

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0199914990 ISBN 13 :  9780199914999
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2012
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