Thomas G. H. James Livres

Poucette est une petite fille pas plus haute qu'un pouce. Mignonne et gracieuse, elle est tour à tour enlevée par une vilaine grenouille et un gros hanneton. Finalement abandonnée dans la forêt, elle trouve refuge chez la souris des champs lorsqu'arrive l'hiver. Le voisin de cette dernière, une taupe, tombe amoureux d'elle en l'entendant chanter.Un jour qu'elle se promène dans le corridor qui sépare les deux maisons, Poucette rencontre une hirondelle blessée. Elle la soigne tout l'hiver, et l'oiseau s'envole à l'arrivée du printemps.Poucette est bien malheureuse. Mais, la veille de son mariage avec la taupe, son amie l'hirondelle revient la chercher pour l'emmener avec elle.Arrivées aux pays chauds, l'hirondelle dépose Poucette au cœur d'une fleur où l'attend un prince bien plus charmant que le fils de la grenouille et l'ennuyeuse taupe ! [babelio.com]

Here in a single volume is a concise, lucid and authoritative introduction to one of the greatest civilisations of the ancient world. Written by the former Keeper and the staff of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, it provides an invaluable guide to the culture, history and achievements of a people whose attraction remains undiminished even after five thousand years.

From the awe-inspring stone colossi of the kings of the delightful small bronze cats, the Egyptian sculptors showed a mastery of form and serenity of style which has never been surpassed. This concise, illustrated survey of 3000 years of Eyptian sculpture is based on the great collections of the British Museum. Why and how this immense range of sculpture was made, and the paths by which so many splendid examples reached the Museum, form the intrduction to this book. The authors go on to describe many of the finest sculptures in the collections, most of which can now be seen in the Egtptian Sculpture Gallery.

An exploration of Egypt, dealing primarily with the influence of its past.

James takes the reader back to the sites from which the wealth of objects yielded by ancient Egypt and now admired in museum all over the world came from. He follows the Nile from the Delta to Nubia, via the great monuments of Memphis, Abydos and Thebes and shows why these places were to provide such superb evidence of the Egyptian achievement. His evocative text and the numerous illustrations illuminate the real significance of Egypt's legacy making a visit to the Egyptian galleries of a museum, or a journey to Egypt itself a much more rewarding experience.

From the earliest times the Egyptians used bold, bright colours to decorate their buildings, sculptures, papyri, coffins and funerary chests. The large tomb-paintings in the British Museum are the most brilliant examples of their artistry but their love of colour shows also in the small vignettes of painted papyri.This book surveys the whole range of Egyptian painting, illustrated chiefly by the wealth of material in the British Museum. T. G. H. James examines the material used by the ancient painters and explains the conventions and methods which governed some great artists, whose work should be valued in its own right as well as for its incomparable record of Egyptian life 3,000 years ago.