The Future of the Past by Alexander Stille

The Future of the Past

Alexander Stille

368 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A fascinating tour of the past as it exists today, and of the dangers that threaten it, through incisive portraits of our attempts to maintain it: the high-tech struggles to save the Great Sphinx and the Ganges; the efforts to preserve Latin withi...

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