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19세기 프랑스에서 태어난 Jean-Francois Champollion이 어려서 부터 세계 최초로 이집트 문자를 해독하겠다는 꿈을 이루기 위한 평생의 헌신과 업적을 비교적 쉽고 간결한 문장과 아름다운 수채화 그림으로 보여줍니다. 나폴레옹이 이집트를 원정해서 발견한 로제타 스톤과 이집트왕의 묘지문을 비교 연구해서 결국 이집트의 고대 상형문자들이 지니고 있는 의미를 해독할 수 있게 되었을 뿐만 아니라, 이집트의 상형문자들이 각각 고유한 음가를 지니고 있는 표음문자라는 점을 세계 최초로 밝혀내는 과정이 흥미진진하게 펼쳐집니다.
책 말미에는 이집트 문자들의 음과 의미를 정리한 표가 수록되어 있습니다.
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Edition : Paperback: 40 pages
ISBN: 0618333452
책 크기 : 27.8cm x 21.6cm
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Book Description
In 1802, Jean-Francois Champollion was eleven years old. That year, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs. Champollion's dream was to sail up the Nile in Egypt and uncover the secrets of the past, and he dedicated the next twenty years to the challenge. James Rumford introduces the remarkable man who deciphered the ancient Egyptian script and fulfilled a lifelong dream in the process. Stunning watercolors bring Champollion's adventure to life in a story that challenges the mind and touches the heart.
Publishers Weekly
A tale of heroic perseverance and discovery, Rumford's (The Cloudmakers) picture book biography of Jean-Fran ois Champollion, the early-19th-century amateur scholar who first deciphered hieroglyphs, will fire the imagination. Elegant watercolors offer pivotal views of the determined young Frenchman, from his initial boyhood interest in Egypt through the years of solo study while teaching school in Grenoble, to his meeting with Napoleon, with whom he shared a passion for Egypt ("Napoleon dreamed of glory. Jean-Fran ois dreamed of discovery"), his eventual breakthrough in 1822 and, finally, his expedition up the Nile. As adept with his pen as he is with his watercolor brush, Rumford etches his lucid prose with lyrical descriptions ("The rushing sound of the pharaoh's name, as if carried on wings across the centuries, filled the room"). Occasional hieroglyphs (suggesting "meet," "sailed," "dog," "celebrated" and so on) are inserted in the text but are too simplistic to intrigue readers. Much more effectively, the margins are peppered with examples of Egyptian words and their hidden meanings: "There is a long-necked, far-seeing giraffe in `predict,' " for instance, and "There are strongly woven sandals firmly planted on the ground in `never give up.' " An afterword provides further information, and a chart of a couple dozen hieroglyphic words offers a glimpse of the translation process.
Children's Literature
Jean-Francois Champollion was one of those boys who had a dream and he was also one of those boys who got to live his dream. Jean decided when he was only seven that he was going to go to Egypt, like the great Napoleon Bonaparte. Soon after this time, Jean began to develop a real interest in the history of ancient Egypt. He learned that no one could understand the strange and cryptic writing that the ancient Egyptians had left behind. Napoleon had brought a stone (called the Rosetta stone) covered with Greek and Egyptian script back from Egypt. Scholars studied and studied it, hoping the stone would help them understand how to translate Ancient Greek, which they could understand, into Ancient Egyptian, which they could not. Nothing seemed to work, however. With great skill James Rumford leads us down the rocky path of discovery, showing us how Jean-Francois Champollion was finally able to understand what the hieroglyph symbols meant. Peppered throughout the text and on each page of text the reader will find hieroglyphs along with their translations. Luminescent watercolor illustrations carry us into the great adventure that was Jean's short but remarkable life. At the back of the book the reader will find further information about the breaking of the hieroglyph code and Jean-Francois Champollion incredible life. In addition, there is a page about hieroglyphs, their meanings and pronunciation. Finally, in closing, the author reminds us that perusing our dreams can be the most rewarding thing that we ever do. A unique book which describes not just a man's achievements but also the true joy that one experiences when one discovers that metaphorical and illusive pot of gold at the end of therainbow. 2000, Houghton Mifflin Company, - Marya Jansen-Gruber
Children's Literature
An introduction to Jean-Francois Champillion, the French scholar who provided the first clues to unlocking the mystery of the Rosetta Stone serves also as a fine introduction to Egyptology. Rumford faces each page of text with illustrations of Champillion from his childhood interest in hierglphys through his near-disastrous talk with Napoleon to his triumphant linking of a cartouche which encircled the name of the Egyptian god of writing. By including glyphs in the text as well as round it, Rumford involves young readers in the complicated meaning of hieroglyphs which may represent letters, or sounds, or nuance. For instance, double sandals planted firmly on the ground represent "never give up" while a cane shape represents the letter "s." Back matter gives further information and a box gives a sample of how one might translate some hieroglyphs. For a much younger audience than Carol Donoughue's excellent The Mystery of the Hieroglyphs (Oxford 1999), this book is especially well-suited for classroom use in the middle elementary grades studying Egyptian civilization.
School Library Journal
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