Showing posts with label master. Show all posts
Showing posts with label master. Show all posts

Monday, July 14, 2008

Avenger


AVENGER
by Frederick Forsyth
another block buster from the master thriller writer, his best in decades. Pure gold, says so , Publishers weekly.
Calvin Dexter is a fairly successful lawyer in New jersey but no ordinary man. Ricky Colenso volunteers a s an aid worker in Bosnia for the summer before college and disappears after a few weeks for good. There is a little hope for his family and the killer has also vanished. Can Cal Dexter uncover the truth of this seemingly straight forward case before the CIA find a way to stop that truth being known? To prevent Dexter, the avenger, who is a threat to the world peace. Forsyth at his conspiring and plot twisting best.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Eternal Egypt


ETERNAL EGYPT
Master works of ancient art from the British museum
One of the greatest loan exhibitions ever to have been mounted from the collections of the British museum. Focusing on over three thousand years of Egyptian history and hundred and forty four diverse works including sculpture , relief, , Papyri, ostraca, jewellery, cosmetic objects and items of funerary equipment, the exhibition was loaned to America while the British museum under went extensive rebuilding. The catalogue presents the items in chronological order and begins with essays that overview the history and nature of Egyptian art as well as the development of the British Museum’s permanent collection.