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Empress of the Nile
- the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt’s ancient temples from destruction
Engelsk Hardback
Empress of the Nile
- the daredevil archaeologist who saved Egypt’s ancient temples from destruction
Engelsk Hardback

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The riveting story of a true-life female Indiana Jones: an archaeologist who survived the Nazis and then saved Egypt’s ancient temples. In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: fifty countries had contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. It was a project of unimaginable size and complexity that required the fragile sandstone temples to be dismantled, stone by stone, and rebuilt on higher ground. But the massive press coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the gutsy French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples would now be at the bottom of a gigantic reservoir. Desroches-Noblecourt refused to be cowed by anyone or anything. As a brave member of the French Resistance in World War II, she had survived imprisonment by the Nazis. Now, in her fight to save the temples, she had to face down two of the most daunting leaders of the postwar world: Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and French president Charles de Gaulle. After a century and a half of Western plunder of Egypt’s ancient monuments, Desroches-Noblecourt helped preserve a crucial part of its cultural heritage, and, just as importantly, made sure it remained in its homeland.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
448
ISBN-13:
9781911344261
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1911344269
Udg. Dato:
13 apr 2023
Længde:
40mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
241mm
Forlag:
Scribe Publications
Oplagsdato:
13 apr 2023
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