Mirage Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt

Name: Mirage Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
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ISBN: 9780060597672

ISBN-10: 0060597674

ISBN-13: 9780060597672

Edition: 2007

Authors: Nina Burleigh

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Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation-and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt, where reports of mysterious monuments, inscrutable hieroglyphics, rare silks and spices, and rumors of lost magical knowledge tantalized dreamers and taunted the power-hungry. It was not until 1798, when an unlikely band of scientific explorers traveled from Paris to the Nile Valley, that Westerners received their first real glimpse of what lay beyond the Mediterranean Sea. Under the command of Napoleon…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/27/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.89" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Nina Burleigh is the author ofUnholy Business: A True Tale of Faith, Greed, and Forgery in the Holy Land,A Very Private Woman: The Life and Unsolved Murder of Presidential Mistress Mary Meyer, and two other books. She has written for theNew York Times,The New Yorker, andTimeand is a contributing editor atElle. She has resided in France, Italy, and the Middle East and now lives in New York. From the Hardcover edition.



Introduction



The General



The Geometer and the Chemist



The Inventor



The Institute



The Engineers



The Doctors



The Mathematician



The Artist



The Naturalist



The Zoologist



The Stone



The Book


Epilogue: From Egyptomania to Egyptology


Notes


Bibliography


Index