Howard Carter

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First published in 1991 and now revised and updated with new pictures and supplemented text, here is the life story of Howard Carter, most famous of archaeologists. Told with distinction and graphic tension, it is the story of the relationship between Carter and his patron, the 5th Earl of Carnarvon and his daughter Lady Evelyn; of the discovery of those ‘wonderful things’ and the splendour of the most memorial of all royal legends. As well as some previously unseen watercolours by Carter, the new edition contains a Foreword by Henrietta McCall of the British Museum and a new Appendix devoted to the remarkable Almina Countess of Carnarvon, illegitimate daughter of Baron Alfred Rothschild, whose wedding dowry largely financed the search for the tomb and its excavation. Written after several years’ research, with full access to the resources of the world-famous Griffith Institute at Oxford and the British Museum, Victor Winstone’s biography has won international acclaim for its informed, eminently readable interpretation of the complexities of a subject that has fascinated mankind for more than eighty years and shows no sign of losing its appeal.