Max Mallowan  (автор)

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The marriage between Sir Max Mallowan and Dame Agatha Christie was one of unusual distinction — a union between the most celebrated exponent of the detective novel and an archaeologist of world renown whose discoveries in Mesoporamia rank with the most important of our time.

In these informal, often witty and always interesting memoirs, Sir Max tells the story of his life, from his boyhood at Lancing where he was a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh, to the days when he was a Trustee of the British Museum. The author was initiated into field archaeology at Ur by Leonard Woolley in 1925, and it was Woolley who first introduced him to a visit­ing novelist, Agatha I Christie.

Throughout the pre­war years, Sir Max Mallowan was accompanied on all his digs by Agatha Christie, who took an active part in the photography, recording and preservation of the finds: some of the humorous odes she composed about her colleagues are included in these pages. Following the account of his wartime activities in the RAF, Sir Max devotes four chapters to his wife's achievements as a supreme craftsman in puzzling and holding under her spell innumerable readers, audiences and film-goers throughout the world.

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Contents

In the Beginning                  11

Part I. BEFORE THE WAR 1926-1938

• Ur: An Introduction to Archaeology          33
• Ur: The Excavations                 46
• Nineveh                      68
• Arpachiyah                    86
• The Habur Survey               101
• Chagar Bazarno                 110
• Excavations at Tell Brak                125
• Excavations in the Balikh Valley           148

Part II. THE WAR 1939-1945

•   London and Cairo    167
•   Tripolitania           178

Part III. AGATHA 1930-1975

• Agatha: The Person          195
• Agatha's Books                 204
• Orient Express                  213
• Agatha's Craft                   222

Part IV. NIMRUD AND ITS REMAINS 1945-1975

• The Institute of Archaeology          233
• Nimrud: The Acropolis                   244
• Nimrud: Fort Shalmaneser             264
• Academic Institutions and their Inmates        292

Epilogue      311

Index          313