9781841151113 - The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead von Pringle, Heather (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Very Good. 1769518173. 1/27/2026 12:49:33 PM.

Hardback. Zustand: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.

1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 368 p., [16] p, of plates : ill ; 22 cm. Bibliography. Subjects: World Congress on Mummy Studies (3rd : 1998 : Arica, Chile). Third World Congress on Mummy Studies. Mummies. Embalming. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First Edition. Medieval saints entombed in Italian cathedrals, bog bodies in the Netherlands, frozen Inca princesses, Egyptian embalmers and Tutankhamen, ascetic Japanese monks and Russian attempts to embalm the body of Stalin. A compelling journey into the world of the everlasting dead. 368 pages with colour and monochrome plates.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. The Mummy Congress. When acclaimed science journalist Heath Pringle was dispatched to a remote part of northern Chile to cover a little-known scientific conference, she found herself in the midst of the most passionate gathering of her working life - dozens of mummy experts crammed into a rambling seaside hotel, battling over the implications of their latest discoveries. Infected with their mania, Pringle spent the next year circling the globe, stopping in to visit leading scientists so she could see at first hand the breathtaking delicacy and unexpected importance of their work. In this book, she recounts the intriguing findings from her travels, bringing to life the hitherto unknown worlds of the long-dead, and revealing what mummines have to tell us about ourselves. Pringle's journeys lead her to the lifelike remains of medieval saints entombed in Italy's grand cathedrals, eerily preserved bog bodies in the Netherlands bearing signs of violent and untimely slaughter, and frozen Inca princesses glimpsed for the first time atop icy mountains. She learns of the extraordinaryu skills of ancient Egyptian embalmers capable of preserving bodies, in the words of one mummy expert, 'until the end of time'; of the horrifying sacrifices made by the ancient South Americans top pacify their gods; and of the weird mummified parasites preserved in the guts of millennia-pld bodies that still wreck havoc across the world today. Ranging from the famous excavations of Tutankhamen to tales of ascetic Japanese 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 the nineteenth-century New Orleans, Pringle demonstrates that our own obsessions with the preserved dread have along and bizarre history. Packed with extraordinary stories and narrated with great humour and verve, this book is a compelling and entertaining journey into the world of the everlasting dead. Illustrated. 368 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).

Zustand: Very good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First UK edition-first printing. Fine condition.Fourth Estate,2001.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Brown hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(small crease on the edge of the Dj cover),both in fine condition.Illustrated with colour photos.The book is new with a small nick and light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages.369pp including Bibliography,index.Price un-clipped.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First UK edition-first printing. Fine condition.Fourth Estate,2001.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Brown hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(small crease on the edge of the Dj cover),both in fine condition.Illustrated with colour photos.The book is new with a small nick and light shelf wear on the outer edges of the pages.369pp including Bibliography,index.Price un-clipped.