James Howard Wellard (1909–1987)
Autor de The Search for the Etruscans
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: James Howard Wellard (1909-1987)
Obras de James Howard Wellard
Deep is the night 3 copias
The ancient way 1 copia
au bord du volcan 1 copia
Look at Italy 1 copia
A man and his journey 1 copia
Night in Babylon : a novel 1 copia
Woman returning 1 copia
To a high mountain 1 copia
Understanding the English 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Wellard, James Howard
- Otros nombres
- Weilade, Zhanmusi
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1909-01-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1987
- Lugar de sepultura
- Hampstead Cemetery, Fortune Green Road, London, England, UK
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- England, UK (birth)
USA (naturalized|1940) - Lugar de nacimiento
- Bermondsey, London, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
Tehran, Iran
Virginia, USA - Educación
- University College London
University of Chicago (PhD) - Ocupaciones
- journalist
university professor
librarian
war correspondent (World War II) - Organizaciones
- University of Tehran
Daily Express - Premios y honores
- Rockefeller Fellowship (University of Chicago)
Fellow, Royal Geographical Society
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 35
- Miembros
- 273
- Popularidad
- #84,854
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 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.… (más)