Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt by Nina Burleigh

Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt

Nina Burleigh

286 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced

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Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation—and no region arou...

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