Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #422653 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 428 pages

Synopsis
This book presents the incredible story of the discovery of those 'wonderful things', and the splendour of the most memorial of all royal legends. Told with style and distinction, it includes previously unseen watercolours by Carter; the story of the relationship between Carter and his patrol, 5th Earl of Carnarvon and his daughter Lady Evelyn; new Foreword by Henrietta McCall of the British Museum; new Appendix devoted to the remarkable Almina Countess of Carnarvon, illegitimate daughter of Baron Alfred Rothschild, whose wedding dowry largely financed the search for the tomb and its excavation.

From the Publisher
Fully revised and updated with new pictures and supplemented
text, here is the life story of Howard Carter, most famous of
archaeologists.
* The incredible story of the discovery of those `wonderful things' and the
splendour
of the most memorial of all royal legends
* Previously unseen water colors by Carter
* Told with distinction and graphic tension
* The story of the relationship between Carter and his patron, the 5th Earl
of Carnarvon and his daughter Lady Evelyn
* New Foreword by Henrietta McCall of the British Museum
* New Appendix devoted to the remarkable Almina, Countess of Carnarvon,
illegitimate daughter of Baron Alfred Rothschild, whose wedding dowry
largely financed the search for the tomb and its excavations
* Written after several years' research, with full access to the resources
of the world famous Griffith Institute at Oxford and the British Museum
* International acclaim for this informed and highly readable account
* Victor Winstone tells the story that has fascinated mankind for more than
eighty
years and shows no sign of losing its appeal.

About the Author
HVF WINSTONE is the biographer of such renowned Arabian
travellers as Gertrude Bell, Captain Shakespear, Col. Leachman and Lady
Anne Blunt, as well as Sir Leonard Woolley, the archaeologist of biblical
Ur. He has written a major political study of Britain in the Near East, The
Illicit Adventure, and a panorama of archaeology, Uncovering the Ancient
World. In his 80th year, he is writing a polemical history of the
Anglo-American involvement in the Middle East, War Without End - the Road
to Terror.

Customer Reviews

FIrst class biography
This is a first class biography - in any way you look at it. Perhaps it is the author's journalism background that allows him to tell a thoroughly fascinating story so well. He has captured the time, and he has been very fair in his treatment of Carter, and has not judged him to harshly, considering what Carter had to endure post the discovery.

Winstone has also done an excellent job of including some unique photographs, the one I especially find intriguing one that shows the reflection of Evelyn Herbert (Canarvon's daughter) in the glass case that displayed Tutankhamun's burial mask.