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Layard of Nineveh.
- Title
- Layard of Nineveh.
- Author
- Waterfield, Gordon, 1903-
- Publication
- [London] J. Murray [1963]
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Details
- Description
- x, 535 pages illustrations, folded map, portraits; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Biographies (form)
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 491-508)
- Contents
- Part 1. Travel 1817-1845 -- Disraeli and the Arabian nights -- 'We rode alone' -- 'Mystery hangs over Assyria' -- Adventures with the Bakhtiari -- 'I scarcely know which way to turn' -- Constantinople and Sir Stratford Canning -- Part II. Archaeology 1845-1851 -- visions of places underground -- they have found Nimrod himself! -- a firman without funds -- the Nestorians and Yezidis -- treated as a master-bricklayer -- the bull is taken to the Tigris -- Triumphal return to England -- the greatest achievement of our time -- the Winged Lions leave Nimrud -- Nineveh and Babylon -- Part III. Politics 1852-1869 -- visions of ambition -- where are you to stop Russia? -- into the cannon's mouth -- we looked to you as our champion -- India during the mutiny -- collared and harnessed -- Part IV. Diplomacy: Spain 1869-1877 -- Bismarck and the Spanish king -- they will kill him too -- revolutions give one a deal of work -- presumptuous Dons -- Part V. Diplomacy: Turkey 1877-1884 -- Gladstone a mere vulgar pamphleteer -- Disraeli makes Layard ambassador -- the amiable Sultan Abdul Hamid -- Turkey is fighting our battle -- it is Poland over again -- the Russians threaten Constantinople -- Negotiations for Cyprus -- Another quarrel with Gladstone -- the very heart of chaos -- Gladstone recalls Layard -- Part VI. Retirement 1884-1894 -- Art and writing in Venice -- the thieving of Assyrian antiquities -- what many have attempted you have done -- a hundred years later.
- LCCN
- 64004433
- B6315824
- OCLC
- ocm00751279
- 751279
- SCSB-114793
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library