Book Midden Publishing

                                   All About Lordy!

The 90^th anniversary of the discovery of the Tomb of  Tutankhamun takes take place on November 4th 2012. That milestone seems to have been lost off the world’s radar. Yet the list of books is long about the daring enterprise by Lord Carnarvon,  the project’s patron, the egotist who spent his wife, Lady Almina’s money, on several years of excavations in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.  Things reached their zenith  for Carnarvon and his archaeologist friend, Howard Carter, on 4 November 1922, when their army of diggers uncovered a stone staircase leading down to a lost treasure.  The rest is a well-known fable, with Carnarvon not living long enough to see the end game.  Less well known is Carnarvon’s epithet of “ Lordy” or The Lord  -  the name(s) given to him by the natives of the desert.   “Lordy!” is the title of the latest title to issue in the Carnarvon Series in a retrospective by William Cross, FSA Scot,  on the childhood and early life of George Edward Stanhope Molynneux Herbert,  the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon.    The book will be published by Book Midden Publishing on 1 September 2012.  

Contact the Author William Cross by e-mail.

williecross@aol.com