Gayer-Anderson: The Life and Afterlife of the Irish Pasha

by Louise Foxcroft

Based on the personal journals of Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson (1881-1945), Egyptologist, poet, surgeon, soldier, psychic, and noted collector, this candid and charming historical biography tells of Gayer-Anderson's strange and eclectic life in the final days of the British empire.
As a child, he crossed an unforgiving America with his entrepreneurial and eccentric Irish parents. As a man, he immersed himself in the Arab way of life as colonials...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774168003
• ISBN13: 9789774168000
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"