The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (Audio)
ISBN:
9781433206832 (1433206838)
Publish date: January 1st 2008
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
I should have a shelf for books about books. I love those. This is a book about a great book. I might read it.
David Damrosch has laid this book out in a very accessible manner, starting with the early archaeology days and Smith translating parts of the epic poem, to Hormuzd Rassam who discovered the ancient city of Nineveh, to the Victorian England sensationalism over the Gilgamesh flood story. I loved how ...