Jeff Pearce

Winged Bull

The Extraordinary Life of Henry Layard, the Adventurer Who Discovered the Lost City of Nineveh

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Produktbeschreibung

Lawrence of Arabia meets Indiana Jones in the first biography of archaeologist and adventurer Henry Layard in over 50 years.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Prometheus Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 154mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781633886995
• ISBN-10: 1633886999
• Artikelnr.: 60069677

Autorenporträt

Jeff Pearce (Toronto, CA) has traveled far to get his unusual and compelling stories. He¿s interviewed a Kurdish army commander on the Iraqi front near Mosul, and he¿s taught journalism in Myanmar. He¿s investigated the dangerous realm of street gangs, and he¿s tracked down survivors of a war in Africa that changed the world. Pearce has worked for print and broadcast media operations both in Canada and the UK, and he has contributed Op-Ed pieces to the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and Myanmar¿s Irrawaddy among other publications. He is also known for his on-camera contributions to the Haile Selassie documentary, Faces of Africa.