The Year of the Ghost: An Olduvai Diary - Couverture rigide

Roe, Derek A.

 
9780953541850: The Year of the Ghost: An Olduvai Diary
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0953541851 ISBN 13 : 9780953541850
Editeur : Western Academic & Specialist Press Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

The 'ghost' of this book is Derek Roe himself. In January 1983 he embarked on his first journey to Tanzania as a ghost writer for an autobiography for Mary Leakey, a name linked for ever in the minds of archaeologists with the famous palaeolithic site of Olduvai Gorge. This diary covers Derek Roe's three trips to visit Mary and also includes correspondence between them both before and after 1983, as well as snippets from their earlier meetings. It is an honest, at times intimate and frank record of the ups and downs of their relationship, of Mary's work in Africa, of the site of Olduvai Gorge and the impact that the discoveries made there have had on the archaeological world. The finished autobiography, drafted by Derek, but much altered before publication, was published in 1984 as Disclosing the Past ; it is now out of print, but this personal account of its creation is a story in its own right.

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À propos de l?auteur

by Derek Roe

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Éditeur
Western Academic & Specialist Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0953541851
ISBN 13 
9780953541850
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
186
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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