{"product_id":"the-museum-of-lost-things-sam-kean-9781426223860","title":"The Museum of Lost Things","description":"Discover the astonishing story of the world’s greatest lost treasures in this enthralling narrative by a writer with \"the anecdotal flourishes of Oliver Sacks and the populist accessibility of Malcolm Gladwell.\" (Entertainment Weekly)\n Spanning a million years of history, the mysteries in these pages include fabled relics, legendary cities, mythical species, and undeciphered languages that have bedeviled seekers for centuries.\nPerhaps the single most common theme across all of history is loss. The loss of lands, loss of sacred objects, loss of languages, of rights, of life—the past groans with disappearances of all kinds. This enthralling narrative collects the most spellbinding tales of these experiences and weaves them into a thoughtful meditation on what it all means across the sweep of human history and the scope of human lives, including:\nThe long-lost city of Troy\nThe hidden tomb of Genghis Khan\nThe destruction of the fabled library of Alexandria\nThe near-destruction of the Mona Lisa and other art\nThe decipherment of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs\nThe extinction—and potential resurrection—of dodos, mammoths, and other iconic species\nProvocative, surprising, and above all entertaining, this globe-trotting narrative acknowledges the sheer scale of humanity’s losses, celebrates the treasures we have managed to retain, and reveals why they continue to captivate us centuries later.","brand":"National Geographic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52454326173984,"sku":"9781426223860","price":25.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9781426223860_3102197.jpg?v=1790320572","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-museum-of-lost-things-sam-kean-9781426223860","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}