Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
EAN: 1415945144
[SR: 9448917], Audio CD, [EAN: 9781415945148], Books On Tape, Books On Tape, Book, [PU: Books On Tape], Books On Tape, Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric European… Mehr…
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2007, ISBN: 9781415945148
Audiobook (CD), Former library audio book. Will have library markings and stickers and possibly no inserts. Plays perfectly., Used, good, [PU: Books on Tape]
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Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
EAN: 1415945144
[SR: 9448917], Audio CD, [EAN: 9781415945148], Books On Tape, Books On Tape, Book, [PU: Books On Tape], Books On Tape, Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric European… Mehr…
Nina Burleigh (Author), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator):
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt - gebrauchtes Buch2007, ISBN: 9781415945148
Audiobook (CD), Former library audio book. Will have library markings and stickers and possibly no inserts. Plays perfectly., Used, good, [PU: Books on Tape]
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Two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists—even a poet and a musicologist—traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's "savants" risked their lives in pursuit of discovery. The first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims in the modern era, the audacious expedition was both a triumph and a disaster, resulting in finds of immense historical and scientific importance (including the ruins of the colossal pyramids and the Rosetta Stone) and in countless tragic deaths through plague, privation, madness, or violence.
Acclaimed journalist Nina Burleigh brings readers back to the landmark adventure at the dawn of the modern era that ultimately revealed the deepest secrets of ancient Egypt to a curious contine
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EAN (ISBN-13): 9781415945148
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1415945144
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Herausgeber: Books On Tape
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ISBN/EAN: 1415945144
ISBN - alternative Schreibweisen:
1-4159-4514-4, 978-1-4159-4514-8
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Autor des Buches: burleigh
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