Stolen, smuggled, sold : on the hunt for cultural treasures /
"Tells the dark and compelling stories of iconic cultural objects that were stolen, smuggled or sold, and eventually returned back to their original owner. This book is structured as a series of vivid stories in which the reader joins the author as she uncovers a cultural treasure and follows i...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- The lady in the jeweled dog collar
- The case of the missing masterpiece
- Ghost dancing at Wounded Knee
- Babe Ruth on a quail hunt
- The only pharaoh outside of Egypt
- Selling history
- Sumerian plunder
- Heroes.