| International Standard Book Number |
9781426225567
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781426223860
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| International Standard Book Number |
1426223862
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
909
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| Personal Name |
Kean, Sam, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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| Title Statement |
The museum of lost things : true tales of fabled treasures, legendary cities, and mythical creatures that vanished from history / Sam Kean.
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| Imprint |
?20
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| Imprint |
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
399 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 c
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| General Note |
"This enthralling narrative tells the astonishing story of our world's greatest lost treasures"-- Provided by publishe
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and inde
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Lost graves -- Lost cities -- Lost people -- Lost relics -- Lost bones -- Lost civilizations -- Lost languages -- Lost knowledge -- Lost gold -- Lost art -- Lost loot -- Lost technology -- Lost specie
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| Summary, Etc. |
Spanning a million years of history, the mysteries in these pages include fabled relics, legendary cities, mythical species, and undeciphered languages that have bedeviled seekers for centuries. Perhaps the single most common theme across all of history is loss. The loss of lands, loss of sacred objects, loss of languages, of rights, of life--the past groans with disappearances of all kinds. This enthralling narrative collects the most spellbinding tales of these experiences and weaves them into a thoughtful meditation on what it all means across the sweep of human history and the scope of human live
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Loss (Psycholog
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Treasure trove
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Antiquitie
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Geographical myth
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Extinct language
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Civilizatio
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World histor
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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