James Howard Wellard (1909–1987)
Autor(a) de The Search for the Etruscans
About the Author
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Obras de James Howard Wellard
Deep is the night 3 cópias
You with the roses-what are you selling? 1 exemplar(es)
The ancient way 1 exemplar(es)
au bord du volcan 1 exemplar(es)
Conversations with a witch : a novel 1 exemplar(es)
Look at Italy 1 exemplar(es)
A man and his journey 1 exemplar(es)
Night in Babylon : a novel 1 exemplar(es)
Woman returning 1 exemplar(es)
To a high mountain 1 exemplar(es)
Book selection : its principles and practice 1 exemplar(es)
Understanding the English 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Wellard, James Howard
- Outros nomes
- Weilade, Zhanmusi
- Data de nascimento
- 1909-01-01
- Data de falecimento
- 1987
- Local de enterro
- Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, London, England, UK
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England, UK (birth)
USA (naturalized|1940) - Local de nascimento
- Bermondsey, London, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Tehran, Iran
Virginia, USA - Educação
- University College London
University of Chicago (PhD) - Ocupação
- journalist
university professor
librarian
war correspondent (World War II) - Organizações
- University of Tehran
Daily Express - Premiações
- Rockefeller Fellowship (University of Chicago)
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
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Resenhas
Listas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 35
- Membros
- 273
- Popularidade
- #84,854
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
It contains a dozen chapters, each describing the search for or discovery of a particular lost city, from Sodom and Gomorrah to Tarxien. The focus is mostly on its discoverers, less so on trying to recreate the history of the inhabitants. Particularly, unsurprisingly for the author's interests, the main focus is in Arabia. With such short coverage on each it's not a detailed book but it is a good read overall and one that inspires the reader to delve further into some of them. There's also a detailed bibliography that would be of great interest to those looking at the published history of 19th century explorations.… (mais)