Dec 30 2008
Tuesday Teaser
Time for a bit of change of pace! I’ve been doing fiction the last two weeks, but this time I’ve made the switch from fiction, and am doing some archeology. Or rather, I’m about to begin a new archeology book as my bedtime reading, so it’s the Tuesday Teaser book today. Time for some non-fiction.
Once again, the reminder of what is to be done for this little meme. We are asked to:
- Grab our current read.
- Let the book fall open to a random page.
- Share two teaser sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
- Share the title of the book that the “teaser” comes from, so people can find the book if they like the teaser.
- And once again we must remember – avoid spoilers.
This is from the book I’m just starting:
Botta, admittedly, received a magnificent response when he appealed to the French government for funds, but when Layard wrote to Canning, the British ambassador at Istanbul, suggesting that his finds were of such importance as to merit support by the British Museum, all Canning managed to obtain for him was two thousand pounds. The result was that Layard was forced to raise money by selling antiquities.
This is from page 169 of The Anvil of Civilization, written by Leonard Cottrell. The book was published in 1957, and this edition, by Mentor Books, is from 1964. That also makes it part of my Books Without ISBN series.
If you want to do your own Tuesday Teaser, either do it in a comment on this blog, or do it on your own blog and leave a link here. Also be sure to post your teaser on the originating blog for Tuesday Teasers, Should Be Reading.
