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Personnamn Foxcroft, Louise, 1956- Författare/medförfattare
Titel och upphov Gayer-Anderson : the life and afterlife of the Irish Pasha
Utgivning, distribution etc. The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo ; New York : 2016
©2016
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Fysisk beskrivning xi, 248 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations 24 cm
Anmärkning: Bibliografi etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index.
Anmärkning: Innehåll Machine generated contents note: 1. Tutankhamun's Tomb and the Universal Love-Ray -- 2. Family Abroad -- 3. To Be an Englishman -- 4. Promise and Squalor -- 5. Into the East -- 6. Africa -- 7. Desert Fever -- 8. "Psychic Tomb-Robbing" -- 9. Crippled in Love -- 10. "Weep, Weep!" -- The Great War -- 11. "Salaam aleyk" -- 12. Revolution -- 13. Murder and Mayhem -- 14. Negative Differences -- 15. Bachelor Father -- 16. Lavenham Menage -- 17. Collecting Beauty and Beit al-Kretliya -- 18. I Am Dying, Egypt, Dying.
Anmärkning: Innehållsbeskrivning, sammanfattning Based on the personal journals of Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson (1881-1945), Egyptologist, poet, surgeon, soldier, psychic, and noted collector, this candid and charming historical biography tells of Gayer-Anderson's strange and eclectic life in the final days of the British empire. As a child, he crossed an unforgiving America with his entrepreneurial and eccentric Irish parents. As a man, he immersed himself in the Arab way of life as colonials seldom did; he saw ghosts and witches, sailed the Nile, wrestled Turks and crocodiles, fought at Gallipoli, smoked opium, performed surgery in the desert, gathered and cared for artefacts and boys in his Cairene home, survived an assassination attempt and, in the name of science and Henry Wellcome, in flowery glades he boiled the flesh from the skulls of Nuba warriors. His personal journals are filled with frank accounts of his exploits and of the illustrious and colorful people who wandered by: Lawrence of Arabia, Gordon, Kitchener, Conan-Doyle, Eric Gill, and Stephen Spender, among others.
Personnamn Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, 1881-1945. Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, 1881-1945 Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville, 1881-1945
Genre/Form Biographies. Biographies.
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