Under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Army, a small and little-known corps of Paris's brightest intellectual lights left the safety of their laboratories, studios, and classrooms to embark on a thirty-day crossing into the unknown—some never to see French shores again. Over 150 astronomers, mathematicians, naturalists, physicists, doctors, chemists, engineers, botanists, artists—even a poet and a musicologist—accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt. Carrying pencils instead of swords, specimen jars instead of field guns, these highly accomplished men participated in the first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims of the modern era. And many lived to tell the tale.
When Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, he took along a motley group of scientists and artists, as well as soldiers. While the military battled scimitars, the noncombatants documented the country's present and past. They measured pharaonic monuments, took rubbings of tomb engravings, and made off with the Rosetta Stone. Everyone, meanwhile, fought the heat and dust. Cassandra Campbell reads this entertaining rendition of Egypt's encounter with archaeologists, painters, and engineers with the right balance of seriousness and lightness. Her voice is well modulated. And her studied pace picks up nicely after the first disc, while maintaining commendable clarity. She also delivers the frequent (untranslated) French quotations beautifully. A.C.S. (c) AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine
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