The Idol Hunter
Book description
NY 1980 first edition. Simon Schuster. Hardcover octavo. Fine in Fine dj.
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For my high school sophomore history teacher, world history was only Greece under Pericles and England under Elizabeth I. I went to Greece under her spell, and ever since, I have been drawn to books about Greece—fiction and non-fiction.
This book is about a fictional Greek island at the end of the Ottoman empire, an English con man caught up in his archaeological con, a beautiful artist (played by a young Helen Mirren in the film version), greedy government officials, and an informer who fears for his life is our unreliable narrator. It makes for an engrossing novel of…
From Jeffrey's list on what to read when the museum is closed.
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