Author: CHUBB, MARY (B. 1903)
Title: City in the sand / Mary Chubb
Description: London : Geoffrey Bles 1957. First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some minor loss) and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Price-clipped. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 209 pages; Physical description: ix. 209 p.[18] p. Of plates : frontis.ill.map (fold. ). ports ; 22 cm. Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) - Iraq. Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Crete. Women archaeologists - England - Biography. Middle East - Description and travel. Eshnunna - Sumer - Mesopotamia. Summary: During the 1930s the young archaeologist Mary Chubb travelled to Iraq. Here. in the land of ancient Mesopotamia. she set to work excavating the ancient Eshunna. a vassal city of Ur. This is her account of the work. in search of what she called 'the human touch. a voice speaking down the ages'.Weight in Kg appr.:

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