ISBN: 9780719565717 - the exiled collector (5 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 320 pages. Text tanned On August 30th 1841 William John Bankes, former Tory MP, pioneer Egyptologist and renowned traveller, was caught in compromising circumstances with a guardsm an in London's Green Park. Faced with the death penalty, he fled to exile in Ven ice, leaving forever his beloved house, Kingston Lacy in Dorset. It was the vica rious embellishment of this house that was to be his only enduring passion. Bril liantly written and highly readable, The Exiled Collector is the first ever biog raphy of William Bankes, recounting his dramatic life story. It examines the psy chology of collecting, the pain and creativity of exile and affords a revealing insight into the minds of a hypocritical ruling elite in early Victorian Britain . …