The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris write by Jean-Babtiste Apollinaire Lebas. This book was released on 2021-03-08. The Luxor Obelisk and Its Voyage to Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The extraordinary story of how an obelisk from the banks of Luxor was transferred to the Place de la Concorde in Paris in the early 19th century Transporting the Luxor obelisk from Egypt to Paris was one of the great engineering triumphs of the early nineteenth century. No obelisk this size (two hundred and fifty tons) had left Egypt in nearly two thousand years, and the task of bringing it fell to a young engineer, Apollinaire Lebas, a man of extraordinary resolve and ability. His is a tale of adventure, excitement, and drama, but one hardly known to the English-speaking world. Lebas’ team was struck by the plague; they ran out of wood; they had to wait four months for the Nile to rise to free their beached ship. But in the end, The Luxor, with its precious cargo on board, sailed down the Nile. On October 25, 1836 before two hundred thousand cheering Parisians, Lebas raised his obelisk. He was rewarded handsomely by his king, a medal with his name on it was struck, and his body lies in the famous Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris along with French luminaries. Now this first-ever translation of Lebas’s account, including digitally enhanced copies of his beautiful drawings, makes his remarkable story available to a wide audience.
Some Notes on Pierce Egan ...
Some Notes on Pierce Egan ... - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Some Notes on Pierce Egan ... write by George Linnaeus Marsh. This book was released on 1931. Some Notes on Pierce Egan ... available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ancient Records of Egypt: The nineteenth dynasty
Ancient Records of Egypt: The nineteenth dynasty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Records of Egypt: The nineteenth dynasty write by James Henry Breasted. This book was released on 1906. Ancient Records of Egypt: The nineteenth dynasty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Ancient Records of Egypt: The nineteenth dynasty
Ancient Records of Egypt: The nineteenth dynasty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient Records of Egypt: The nineteenth dynasty write by James Henry Breasted. This book was released on 2001. Ancient Records of Egypt: The nineteenth dynasty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Originally published in 1906-1907, this is the first complete collection, in paperback, of historical source documents available at the turn of the 20th century, translated by James Henry Breasted. This third volume considers documents of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
Zarafa
Zarafa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zarafa write by Michael Allin. This book was released on 1999-08-10. Zarafa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In October 1826, a ship arrived at Marseille carrying the first giraffe ever seen in France. A royal offering from Muhammad Ali, Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt, to King Charles X, she had already traveled 2,000 miles down the Nile to Alexandria, from where she had sailed across the Mediterranean standing in the hold, her long neck and head protruding through a hole cut in the deck. In the spring of 1827, after wintering in Marseille, she was carefully walked 550 miles to Paris to the delight of thousands of onlookers. The viceroy's tribute was politically motivated: He commanded the Turkish forces then fighting the Greeks in their war of independence, and hoped his gift would persuade the French not to intervene against him. But the viceroy and his intentions were quickly forgotten as France fell in love with its "beautiful stranger." Zarafa chronicles the full story of this remarkable animal, revealing a kaleidoscope of history, science, and culture that opens an exotic window on the early nineteenth century. From the Enlightenment's blossoming fascination with science to Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Egypt in 1798–from the eminent French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire to Bernardino Drovetti, French consul general in Egypt and tomb robber extraordinaire–the era was full of memorable events and characters. Michael Allin deftly weaves them into the story with an appreciation for detail and an uncommon affection. The giraffe's strange and wonderful journey linked Africa and Europe in mutual discovery. Although her arrival did not keep the French out of Ali's war, she became an instant celebrity in Paris and over the next eighteen years she fascinated all of Europe. Through Michael Allin's narrative skill, Zarafa stirs the imagination as it provides a new context for the history of a distant age.
