The Grub-And-Stakers Quilt a Bee by Charlotte Macleod
1 IN ODYSEUS'S WAKE 1 1 LOGOS 13 3 THE NEW LABYRINTH 47 4 THE SKEIN OF ARIADNE 65 S HEAR YE, CRETANS AND GREKS 93 6 THE BATLE OF NAXOS 119 7 RAPANUI 139 8 TALKI NG BOARDS OF TH E PACI FIC 153 9 ATOP TERE VAKA 167 10 AL THE BIRDS . 187 11 SURFING THE RONGORONGO 205 Suggested Reading 223 Index 227 A glyph (short for hieroglyph) is a sign in a script. And a breaker is a person who cracks a script's code. A glyph- breaker is then a decipherer, someone who lets us read the unreadable, that linguistic magician who gives voice to the mute past. Until 1984 no one had been able to read Crete's 3600-year- old Phaistos Disk, Europe's earliest literature and greatest written enigma. Until 1994 no one could make sense of Easter Island's mysterious Iongorongo writing, Oceania's only script predating the twentieth century. No one had ever deciphered two wholly different historical scripts before. Until now. This is the true story of these two achievements.
MacLeod, Charlotte: - Charlotte MacLeod (1922-2005) was an internationally bestselling author of cozy mysteries. Born in Canada, she moved to Boston as a child, and lived in New England most of her life. After graduating from college, she made a career in advertising, writing copy for the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company before moving on to Boston firm N. H. Miller & Co., where she rose to the rank of vice president. In her spare time, MacLeod wrote short stories, and in 1964 published her first novel, a children's book called Mystery of the White Knight. In Rest You Merry (1978), MacLeod introduced Professor Peter Shandy, a horticulturist and amateur sleuth whose adventures she would chronicle for two decades. The Family Vault (1979) marked the first appearance of her other best-known characters: the husband and wife sleuthing team Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn, whom she followed until her last novel, The Balloon Man, in 1998.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780380703371 |
| ISBN 10 | 0380703378 |
| Title | The Grub-And-Stakers Quilt a Bee |
| Author | Charlotte Macleod |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Avon Books (Mm) |
| Year published | 1990-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 179 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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