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Empress of the Nile
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- Book Synopsis
- The riveting story of a true-life female Indiana Jones: an archaeologist who survived the Nazis and then saved Egypt's ancient temples. In the 1960s, the world's attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: fifty countries had contributed nearly a billion dollars to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. It was a project of unimaginable size and complexity that required the fragile sandstone temples to be dismantled, stone by stone, and rebuilt on higher ground. But the massive press coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the gutsy French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples would now be at the bottom of a gigantic reservoir. Desroches-Noblecourt refused to be cowed by anyone or anything. As a brave member of the French Resistance in World War II, she had survived imprisonment by the Nazis. Now, in her fight to save the temples, she had to face down two of the most daunting leaders of the postwar world: Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser and French president Charles de Gaulle. After a century and a half of Western plunder of Egypt's ancient monuments, Desroches-Noblecourt helped preserve a crucial part of its cultural heritage, and, just as importantly, made sure it remained in its homeland.
- About The Author
- Lynne Olson is a New York Times bestselling author of ten books of history, most of which focus on World War II. Olson's previous book, Empress of the Nile, was published by Scribe in 2023. Other books by Olson include Last Hope Island, Madame Fourcade's Secret War, and Citizens of London.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781911344261
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Scribe UK, (12 April 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 448
- Weight
- 696 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 x 34.9 mm
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