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Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological Explorer

Sir Aurel Stein: Archaeological Explorer

Mirsky, Jeannette

Paperback

Historical FiguresArchaeologyExploration

ISBN10: 0226531775
ISBN13: 9780226531779
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Oct 1 1998
Pages: 616
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.32 Width: 6.27 Depth: 9.22
Language: English
An extraordinary man, who advanced human knowledge on many fronts, Sir Aurel Stein (1862-1943) pursued dramatic adventure with scientific purpose. Jeannette Mirsky has drawn from Stein's voluminous outpouring of books and articles as well as from his letters and unpublished archival materials to produce a lively and definitive biography of this archaeological explorer, geographer, historical topographer, and linguist.

[Mirsky] has digested the correspondence, and she quotes so skillfully that her book will save many people the trouble of reading Stein's own exhaustive and exhausting volumes. Definitive.--Larry McMurtry, Washington Post

A first-rate and unique biography of one of the more significant explorers of Central Asia and the Indo-Iranian borderlands. . . . Mirsky has recreated not only the life of an intrepid explorer but the spirit of the times.--Choice

Mirsky has performed a signal service in distilling the life, travels, and letters of Aurel Stein into a manageable, graceful, and meaningful synthesis.--Theodore A. Wertime, Technology and Culture

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