Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt AUTH-3640786 Dark Days at Saddle Creek

Dark Days at Saddle Creek

My Captain

Being psychic

Philip Mansel

It's all explained

Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt AUTH-3640786 Dark Days at Saddle CreekTwo hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists even a poet and a musicologist traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's savants risked their lives in pursuit of