Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble Tapa dura - 2014
de Marilyn Johnson
Descripción de contraportada
Finding Life in Ruins
Jump into a battered Indiana Jones-style Jeep with the intrepid Marilyn Johnson and head down bone-rattling roads in search of those who dig up the past. Johnson, the author of two acclaimed books about quirky subcultures-The Dead Beat (about obituary writers) and This Book Is Overdue! (about librarians)-brings her irrepressible wit and curiosity to bear on yet another strange world, that of archaeologists. Who chooses to work in ruins? What's the allure of sifting through layers of dirt under a hot sun? Why do archaeologists care so passionately about what's dead and buried-and why should we?
Johnson tracks archaeologists around the globe from the Caribbean to the Mediterranean, from Newport, Rhode Island to Machu Picchu. She digs alongside experts on an eighteenth-century sugar plantation and in a first-century temple to Apollo.
She hunts for bodies with forensics archaeologists in the vast and creepy Pine Barrens of New Jersey, drinks beer with an archaeologist of ancient beverages, and makes stone tools like a caveman. By turns amusing and profound, Lives in Ruins and its wild cast of characters find new ways to consider what is worth salvaging from our past.
Archaeologists are driven by the love of history and the race to secure its evidence ahead of floods and bombs, looters and thieves, and before the bulldozers move in. Why spend your life in ruins? To uncover our hidden stories before they disappear.
Detalles
- Título Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
- Autor Marilyn Johnson
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Edición First printing
- Páginas 288
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Harper, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2014-11
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780062127181 / 0062127187
- Peso 0.95 libras (0.43 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.3 pulgadas (22.61 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
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Temas
- Topical: Library Reads
- Library of Congress subjects Archaeologists, Archaeology
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2014028450
- Dewey Decimal Code 930.1
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Discover, 12/01/2014, Page 15
- Entertainment Weekly, 12/05/2014, Page 74
- Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2014, Page 0
- Library Journal, 11/01/2014, Page 112
- New York Times Book Review, 01/11/2015, Page 12
- Publishers Weekly, 09/15/2014, Page 0
- Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/03/2014, Page 36
- Shelf Awareness, 11/21/2014, Page 0
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