by Gilles Lambert · Vergara · tapa dura · ISBN 9789501519723
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«El guardián del desierto» is the biography of Auguste Mariette written by Gilles Lambert, published by Vergara in hardcover (318 pages, in Spanish).
Auguste Mariette, a nineteenth-century French teacher, discovers his Egyptological vocation upon receiving a chest with drawings and plates about Egypt. From then on, he dedicates his life to rescuing pharaonic monuments from plunder and neglect, in a struggle against the desert, time, and the incomprehension of his contemporaries.
Auguste Mariette wrote the libretto of Aida, the opera that Verdi immortalized.
For readers interested in the history of Egypt and the lives of the first archaeologists.
