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The Rash Adventurer : A Life of John Pendlebury

by: Grundon, I.

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Category: Minoan / Mycenaean / Aegean / Mediterranean Bronze Age
Code: 1568
ISBN-13: 9781901965063 / 978-1-901965-06-3
ISBN-10: 1901965066 / 1-901965-06-6
Publisher: Libri Publications Ltd.
Publication Date: 2007
Publication Place: London
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 383
Book Condition: New

The rash adventurer : a life of John Pendlebury

Author:Imogen Grundon

Summary:"John Pendlebury (1904-41), the 'Cretan Lawrence', was shot in the first days of the German occupation of Crete while organising bands of guerillas to fight the invaders. Not a professional soldier, Pendlebury was chosen for the task because of his intimate knowledge of Crete, its people and language, acquired through his years of archaeological experience on the island. As Curator at Knossos, successor to Sir Arthur Evans, his athleticism and taste for adventure had taken him all over the island in search of ancient sites. Pendlebury's passion for the ancient world also led him to Egypt, where he was Director of the excavations at Tell el-Amarna, city of the heretic pharaoh Akhenaten and his queen, Nefertiti. At Cambridge in the mid 1920s he won a Blue for athletics, competing with contemporaries such as Lord Burghley, and a first class degree in Classics and Archaeology. In this, the first biography of John Pendlebury, Imogen Grundon constructs a vivid picture of a brilliant and charismatic scholar-hero, whose life was lived, and ultimately lost, by an ideal of romantic chivalry.

xv, 383 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

 

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Archaeologists
Archaeologists Egypt Biography
Archaeologists Great Britain Biography
Archaeologists Greece Biography
Archéologues Égypte Biographies
Archéologues Grande-Bretagne Biographies
Archéologues Grèce Biographies
Biographies
Egypt
Great Britain
Greece
Pendlebury, J. D. S. 1904-1941
 

 
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The Rash Adventurer : A Life of John Pendlebury

by: Grundon, I.

  • ISBN-13: 9781901965063 / 978-1-901965-06-3
  • ISBN-03: 1901965066 / 1-901965-06-6
  • Libri Publications Ltd., London, 2007

Price: 48,00 EURO

(in stock)