Name: Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples From Destruction (en Inglés)
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Author: Lynne Olson
ISBN: 9780525509486

portada Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples From Destruction (en Inglés)

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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Lynne Olson

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Inglés

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448

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Tapa Blanda

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9780525509486

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples From Destruction (en Inglés)

Lynne Olson (Autor) · Random House Trade Paperbacks · Tapa Blanda

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The remarkable story of the intrepid French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam, by the New York Times bestselling author of Madame Fourcade's Secret War "A female version of the Indiana Jones story . . . [Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt] was a daredevil whose real-life antics put Hollywood fiction to shame."--The GuardianIn the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: the international campaign to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the daring French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples--including the Temple of Dendur, now at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art--would currently be at the bottom of a vast reservoir. It was an unimaginably complex project that required the fragile sandstone temples to be dismantled and rebuilt on higher ground. Willful and determined, Desroches-Noblecourt refused to be cowed by anyone or anything. As a member of the French Resistance in World War II she survived imprisonment by the Nazis; in her fight to save the temples she defied two of the most daunting leaders of the postwar world, Egypt's President Abdel Nasser and France's President Charles de Gaulle. As she told one reporter, "You don't get anywhere without a fight, you know." Desroches-Noblecourt also received help from a surprising source. Jacqueline Kennedy, America's new First Lady, persuaded her husband to help fund the rescue effort. After a century and a half of Western plunder of Egypt's ancient monuments, Desroches-Noblecourt helped instead to preserve a crucial part of that cultural heritage.