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The earl and the pharaoh : from the real Downton Abbey to the discovery of Tutankhamun / The Countess of Carnarvon.

Carnarvon, Fiona, Countess of, (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780063264229
ISBN: 0063264226
Physical Description: 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, genealogical tables, maps ; 24 cm
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022]
Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-361) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

In memoriam--26 December 1874 -- The christening -- The reluctant schoolboy -- Lessons and life -- Ship ahoy -- My father's house -- Till Will Tell -- 'A young man in possession of a good fortune" -- 'All the world's a stage' -- The royal visit -- Horsepower -- Motor car-narvon -- A slice and a hook -- Ceylon -- The mummified cat -- Howard Carter -- The tomb of Tetaky -- Marvellous men and their flying machines -- The Carnarvon and Carter partnership -- Bad Schwalbach -- The valley of the queens -- The moth club -- Castle Carter -- Five years at Thebes -- Camping -- The Valley of the Kings -- June 1914 -- Kitchener's armies -- Egypt -- Bryanston Square -- Serve to lead -- In Flanders fields -- Go gently into the night -- 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' -- Land of light--1919 -- Winter 1922 -- Wonderful things -- Holy of holies -- The mosquito -- The funeral procession--Saturday 28 April 1923 -- Legacy.