In Search of the Old Ones by David Roberts

He is currently a PhD candidate in cinema and media arts at York University studying facial recognition technologies. His novel Y was translated into French by Rachel Martinez as Oppenheimer and was published by Éditions La Peuplade in 2020.

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If you're interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the 2023 CBC Short Story Prize is currently open for submissions until Oct. 31, 2022. 15 and the winner will be announced on Sept. 22. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books. The winner of the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their work published on CBC Books and have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Read Less.Aaron Tucker has made the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist for A Cowboy's Work.ģ1 writers make the 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist No publication before his had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. It is one of the greatest of all the colour plate books published in the nineteenth century – a true landmark. Roberts' Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, was one of the most elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, providing the most comprehensive series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. Leaving Cairo, he sailed up the Nile to record the monuments, travelling as far as Wadi Halfa and the Second Cataract.

It is claimed that he was the first European to have unlimited access to the mosques in Cairo, under the proviso that he did not commit desecration by using brushes made from hog’s bristle. In August 1838 he arrived in Alexandria to start a carefully planned enterprise. David Roberts, RA (1796–1864), enjoyed a wide popularity in his day for his European views, but it is on the outstanding success of his drawings of the Holy Land and Egypt that the modern appreciation of his work is based.

In Search of the Old Ones by David Roberts