Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indo-China - Brossura

Osborne, Roger

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0712665676 ISBN 13: 9780712665674

Casa editrice: Random House Uk Ltd, 2000

Riassunto

En route to a golden future as one of France's greatest geologists, Jacques Deprat is suddenly accused of fraud and plunged into a desperate fight to save his reputation. Convicted of placing European fossils among samples collected in Indo-China, he is dismissed from his job and expelled from the Société Géologique de France. Thrown out of the science to which he has given everything, he re-invents himself, changes his name, and begins not one but two fascinating new lives - each as extraordinary and colourful as the one he left behind. Eighty years later the truth of the Deprat affair is still in doubt. But innocent or guilty, Jacques Deprat is an astonishing figure, whose capacity to overcome the world's disgrace and the dissolution of his dreams makes an amazing and captivating story.

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Recensione:

"Immensely readable and beautifully written." - Ruth Rendell

L'autore:

Roger Osborne became a publisher of scientific, medical and technical books after studying geology at Manchester University. He became a full-time writer in 1992 and is the author of The Floating Egg.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Random House Uk Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0712665676
• ISBN 13: 9780712665674
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256