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Disclosing the past  Cover Image Book Book

Disclosing the past / Mary Leakey.

Summary:

An autobiography of the anthropologist's personal and professional life. The renowned anthropologist offers an incisive, inside look at her remarkable family and discusses her work with her husband in East Africa and their discoveries, when forever altered the course of modern anthropology

Record details

  • ISBN: 0070368376
  • ISBN: 9780070368378
  • Physical Description: 224 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st McGraw-Hill pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1986.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1984.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 218) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
By way of prelude -- Childhood and forbears -- First encounters with archaeology -- Growing up -- The beginning of a partnership -- Africa for the first time -- Marriage to Louis -- The war years in Kenya -- After the war -- From Proconsul to 'Zinj' -- The partnership breaks down -- The end of the chapter -- Picking up the threads -- The Laetoli years -- People and places -- A time of change and reflection.
Subject: Leakey, Mary D. (Mary Douglas), 1913-1996.
Women physical anthropologists > Tanzania > Biography.
Women archaeologists > Tanzania > Biography.
Fossil hominids > Tanzania > Olduvai Gorge.
Fossil hominids.
Women archaeologists.
Women physical anthropologists.
Tanzania.
Tanzania > Olduvai Gorge.
Genre: Biography.
Biography.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lummi Library BIO Leake Leake 1986 260226 Biography Available -


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