Old Forms on a New Land: California Architecture in Perspective
by Kirker, Harold
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/VG+ /VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0911797890
- ISBN 13
- 9780911797893
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When Oxford archeologist Mensun Bounddubbed the Indiana Jones of the Deep” by the Discovery Channelteamed up with a financier to salvage a sunken trove of fifteenth-century porcelain, it seemed a dream enterprise. The stakes were high: The Hoi An wreck lay hundreds of feet down in a typhoon-prone stretch of water off the coast of Vietnam known as the Dragon Sea. Raising its contents required saturation diving, a crew of 160, and a fleet of boats. The costs were unprecedented. But the potential rewards were equally high: Bound would revolutionize thinking about Vietnamese ceramics, and his partner would make a fortune auctioning off the pieces. Hired as the project’s manager, Frank Pope watched the tumultuous drama of the Hoi An unfold. In Dragon Sea he delivers an engrossing tale of danger, adventure, and ambitiona fascinating object lesson in what happens when scholarship and money join forces to recover lost treasure.
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- AardBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MAIN015302I
- Title
- Old Forms on a New Land: California Architecture in Perspective
- Author
- Kirker, Harold
- Illustrator
- illus
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine/VG+
- Jacket Condition
- VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0911797890
- ISBN 13
- 9780911797893
- Publisher
- Roberts Rinehart
- Place of Publication
- Niwot, CO
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- small 4to, 126pp, y, signed
- Bookseller catalogs
- architecture;
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