Description: Title: Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt Author: Burleigh, Nina Publisher: Harper Perennial Binding: Paperback Pages: 320 Dimensions: 8.00h x 5.34w x 0.81d Product Weight: 0.53 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780060597689 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 continent. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Mirage : Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Item Height: 80 in
Publication Year: 2008
Topic: Archaeology, Modern / 18th Century, Military / Napoleonic Wars, Europe / France, Military / General, Ancient / Egypt, Historical, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 9.4 Oz
Author: Nina Burleigh
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
