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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead Hardcover - 2001
by Heather Pringle
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IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF scientific meetings, the Mummy Congress is a small, intimate affair, long on singular personalities and surreal slide shows and short on sophistication, hype, and ballyhoo.
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- Title The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
- Author Heather Pringle
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, Toronto
- Date May 2001
- ISBN 9780670888023 / 0670888028
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 393.3
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Toronto: Penguin / Viking , 2001. -----The scan you see is the book you get. Quarter bound in red, beige boards with silver lettering on spine, headband, 368 pages plus 16 pages of photos in full colour, no names, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition. "Ranging from the famous excaation of Tutankhamen to tales of ascetic Japanses monks trying to mummify themselves, and from the Russians' terrified attempts to embalm the body of Stalin to the fleeting craze for public mummy unwrappings in 19th century New Orleans, The Mummy Congress demonstrates that our own obsession with the preserved dead has a long and bizarre history . Packed with extraordinary stories and narrated with great humour and verve, The Mummy Congress is a compelling and entertaining journey into the weird world of the everlasting dead." Contents include: The Congress / The Dissector's Knife / Hosts / Drug Barons / Crime Stories / Invaders from the West / Master Race / The Merchants of Mummy / Celebrities / The…
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Toronto: Penguin Books. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2001. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0670888028 . Small spot top front board, otherwise only slight wear to book and dustjacket ; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. B&W and color plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 384 pages; "The Mummy Congress takes us on a journey over five continents and back nearly 7,000 years. Pringle tells how mummies have been venerated as saints, fought over by politicians, collected as artistic treasures and investigated for clues to ancient civilization's drug use. In these pages lie child mummies of northern Chile, preserved household pets of ancient Egypt and the new crop of mummification services being hyped on the internet. " .
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Hyperion, 2001. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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New York: Viking Penguin, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Signed by Author. pp. 368, color illustrations and b/w illustrations. SIGNED by the author on the title page.
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