Requiescat: A Cat's Life at the British Museum

by Nigel Barley

Between the two World Wars, the most famous employee of the British Museum was a cat called Mike. For some twenty years, Mike made it his home and his friend was a most irregular Egyptologist, Wallis Budge, a freebooting fieldworker and smuggler of antiquities. It was a time when the wildest spiritualist ideas were in full resurgence, when ghosts, mummies and lethal curses were held to stalk the earth and many leading scientists, writers and thinkers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1980983976
• ISBN13: 9781980983972
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"