The Year of the Ghost: An Olduvai Diary

Roe, Derek A.

ISBN 10: 0953541851 / ISBN 13: 9780953541850

Editore: Western Academic & Specialist Press, 2002

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Codice articolo GOR005431190

Riassunto:

The 'ghost' of this book is Derek Roe himself. In January 1983 he embarked on his first journey to Tanzania as a ghost writer for an autobiography for Mary Leakey, a name linked for ever in the minds of archaeologists with the famous palaeolithic site of Olduvai Gorge. This diary covers Derek Roe's three trips to visit Mary and also includes correspondence between them both before and after 1983, as well as snippets from their earlier meetings. It is an honest, at times intimate and frank record of the ups and downs of their relationship, of Mary's work in Africa, of the site of Olduvai Gorge and the impact that the discoveries made there have had on the archaeological world. The finished autobiography, drafted by Derek, but much altered before publication, was published in 1984 as Disclosing the Past ; it is now out of print, but this personal account of its creation is a story in its own right.

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Titolo: The Year of the Ghost: An Olduvai Diary
Casa editrice: Western Academic & Specialist Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2002
Legatura: Hardback
Condizione: Very Good