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Der Linguist und der Kaiser: Napoleons und Champollions Suche nach der Entschlüsselun g der Rosette
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Artikelmerkmale
- Artikelzustand
- Era
- 2000s
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Original Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780345450678
- Book Title
- Linguist and the Emperor : Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Social Science, History
- Topic
- Archaeology, Ancient / General, Europe / General, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
- Item Weight
- 14.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.8 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
Über dieses Produkt
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0345450671
ISBN-13
9780345450678
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5951227
Product Key Features
Book Title
Linguist and the Emperor : Napoleon and Champollion's Quest to Decipher the Rosetta Stone
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Topic
Archaeology, Ancient / General, Europe / General, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2003-065515
Reviews
"[A] page turner . . . entertaining history that's told with gusto and goes down like a pleasant aperitif." The Washington Post Book World "COMPELLING . . . A PASSIONATE LINGUISTIC LOVE AFFAIR." Time "[Meyerson] has inhaled his rich material. It is as if his normal respiration were in cursive, demotic, or hieratic scripts, and acrophonic principlesas if he had always been able to read obelisks and coffins." Harper's From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Synopsis
The deciphering of the Rosetta stone was one of the great intellectual triumphs of all time, unlocking the secrets of thousands of years of Egypt's ancient civilization. Yet in the past two centuries, the circumstances surrounding this bravura feat of translation have become shrouded in myth and mystery. Now in his spellbinding new book, Daniel Meyerson recounts the extraordinary true story of how the lives of two geniuses converged in a breakthrough that revolutionized our understanding of the past. The emperor Napoleon and the linguist Jean-Francois Champollion were both blessed with the temperament of artists and damned with ferocious impatience-and both of them were obsessed with Egypt. In fact, it was Napoleon's dazzling, disastrous Egyptian campaign that caught the attention of the young Champollion and forever changed his life. From the instant Champollion learned of Napoleon's discovery of a stone inscribed with three sets of characters-Greek, Coptic, and hieroglyphic-he could not rest. He vowed to be the first to crack the mystery of what became known as the Rosetta stone. In Daniel Meyerson's sweeping narrative, the haunting story of the Rosetta stone-its discovery in a doomed battle, the intrigue to secure it, the agonizing race to unlock its secrets, and the pain it seemed to inflict on all who touched it-reads like the most engrossing fiction. Napoleon, despite his power and glory, suffered repeated betrayals . . . by his Empress Josephine, on the battlefield, and by history itself. Champollion, though he triumphed intellectually, ultimately endured his own terrible tragedy. As background and counterpoint to the stories of the brilliant linguist and the visionary emperor, Meyerson interweaves the ancient tales of love, intrigue, brutal death, and miraculous rebirth that were hidden for centuries on the walls of Egyptian tombs-stories that Champollion finally made accessible to the world. Blending history, politics, intellectual passion, and a deep understanding of the human heart, The Linguist and the Emperor is a stunning tapestry of breakthrough and ambition, grandeur and vanity, power and pain. Carrying on the tradition of The Professor and the Madman and Longitude , Meyerson has fashioned a masterpiece of meticulous history and astonishing storytelling.
LC Classification Number
PJ1531.R5M49 2004
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