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The rescuers : the remarkable people who saved world heritage / Nancy Moses.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection CC135 .M668 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moses, Nancy, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural property--Protection--History.
- Cultural property.
- Historic sites--Protection--History.
- Historic sites.
- Archaeologists--Biography.
- Archaeologists.
- Anthropologists--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- Conservationists--Biography.
- Conservationists.
- Genre:
- Authors' autographs.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 177 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Remarkable people who saved world heritage
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2025]
- Summary:
- "This book profiles some of the handful of people who rescued significant cultural treasures that would or may have been otherwise lost to humankind. Some, like Dr. Assad, were on a noble mission, but that is not always the case. Some are motivated by profit, fame, gratitude, or personal advancement"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Monuments officers and culture warriors
- The Laird of Breckness : the man who saved Skara Brae
- Harold Rhode, Doris Hamburg and others : the men and women who saved the Iraqi Jewish Archive
- Tom Cade : the man who saved the Peregrine Falcon
- Louis Shotridge and George B. Gordon : the men who saved Tlingit culture
- John A. Lomax : the man who saved American folk song classics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy signed by the author.
- Athenaeum copy: Eden fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Moses, Nancy, 1948- Rescuers
- ISBN:
- 9781538159798
- 1538159791
- OCLC:
- 1443762247
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