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Leonard Cottrell (1913–1974)

Autor(a) de The Bull of Minos

50+ Works 2,006 Membros 21 Críticas

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Obras por Leonard Cottrell

The Bull of Minos (1920) 376 exemplares
The Horizon Book of Lost Worlds (1962) — Autor — 204 exemplares
Hannibal: Enemy Of Rome (1960) 159 exemplares
The Anvil of Civilization (1957) 138 exemplares
The Lost Pharaohs (1950) 123 exemplares
The Great Invasion (1958) 117 exemplares
Lost Cities (1957) 104 exemplares
Life under the Pharaohs (1960) 96 exemplares
Land of the Pharaohs (1960) 55 exemplares
Seeing Roman Britain (1956) 51 exemplares
The Mountains of Pharaoh (1956) 42 exemplares
The Lion Gate (1963) 40 exemplares
Wonders of Antiquity (1959) 31 exemplares
The Penguin book of lost worlds (1966) 28 exemplares
Queens of the Pharaohs (1966) 26 exemplares
Lost Worlds (1964) 26 exemplares
Land of the Two Rivers (1962) 25 exemplares
A guide to Roman Britain (1966) 24 exemplares
The Secrets of Tutankhamen's tomb (1964) 24 exemplares
The warrior Pharaohs (1968) 16 exemplares
Egypt (1964) 15 exemplares
Wonders of the world (1962) 13 exemplares
The Land of Shinar (1965) 13 exemplares
Great Leaders of Greece and Rome (1966) 13 exemplares
Crete: island of mystery (1965) 10 exemplares
The quest for Sumer (1965) 9 exemplares
Queens of Egypt (2019) 8 exemplares
Madame Tussaud (1965) 4 exemplares
Mesopotamia (1964) 2 exemplares
One man's journey 1 exemplar
Up in a balloon (1974) 1 exemplar
Faraonų laikais 1 exemplar

Associated Works

Greece and Rome; builders of our world (1968) — Contribuidor — 407 exemplares
This England (1966) 170 exemplares

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A cultured look through a modern eye at some of the grandest wonders of the ancient world, Leonard Cottrell's 1960 book Wonders of Antiquity benefits from the more refined, essayistic style of his generation. A more recent book discussing the Seven Wonders of the World couldn't fail to be old-hat, gimmicky or written shallowly, but Cottrell takes a hoary old topic and restores that magic and mystery – that wonder – to it.

After discussing the Seven Wonders, Cottrell surprises us further by discussing, with even more élan, buildings and monuments that he believes deserve to be discussed alongside the official 'Seven'. These are not modern buildings (the youngest discussed is from the Middle Ages) and yet the freshness with which the author discusses them is engaging. The Egyptian wonders have an obvious appeal, but perhaps Cottrell's best writing comes in the chapter on Krak des Chevaliers, the Crusader castle. While impressive, this isn't the most obvious candidate for a 'wonder', an evocative, magical place, but in Cottrell's hands we see it as such. Ultimately, Wonders of Antiquity is a fascinating topic delivered by a writer of some calibre, and that's all that's needed to make any title worth reading.… (mais)
 
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MikeFutcher | Feb 2, 2024 |
A portrait of a very distant era, with both literary and archaeological support. Leonard Cotrell was a very skilled popularizer and this remains one of his more reprinted books. The emperor in question was a very focussed tyrant, and has influenced almost all Chinese rulers to this day.
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DinadansFriend | 1 outra crítica | Jan 21, 2023 |
 
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Rubygarnet | 4 outras críticas | Dec 14, 2022 |
Este brillante libro explora los inicios más remotos de las civilizaciones mediterráneas que se convirtieron en la Grecia clásica.
 
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Natt90 | 4 outras críticas | Nov 15, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
50
Also by
2
Membros
2,006
Popularidade
#12,833
Avaliação
½ 3.7
Críticas
21
ISBN
100
Línguas
5

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