The Deprat affair
ambition, revenge, and deceit in French Indo-China
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Word Count
61,000 words, Guess
Page Count
244 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100224052950
- ISBN-139780224052955
- Goodreads5137422
- Library of Congress Control Number00300335
- OCLC Control Number42744773
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL6820735M
Classifications
- DDC550/.92
- DDCB
- LCCQE22.D365 O73 1999
Description
"Detective story, social history, human drama, The Deprat Affair recreates the hothouse atmosphere of colonial Indo-China in the early twentieth century. Among its cliques, its bitter rivalries, its nepotism and favours, how are we to disentangle the scientific, the moral and the legal 'truths' of the affair?" "Most of all, the story centres on one compelling individual - Jacques Deprat. En route to a golden future as one of France's greatest geologists, he is suddenly accused of fraud and plunged into a desperate fight to save his reputation. Convicted of placing European fossils among samples collected in Indo-China, he is dismissed from his job, and expelled from the Societe Geologique de France. Thrown out of the science to which he has given everything, he re-invents himself, changes his name, and begins not one, but two fascinating lives - each as extraordinary and colourful as the one he left behind. And even in the manner of his premature death, Deprat proved his ability to shake the world."--Jacket.
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