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COTTERELL**, MAURICE: : THE TERRACOTTA WARRIORS: The Secret Codes of the Emperor's Army

LONDON.HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING 2003.

ISBN 0747271321.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.Ink familial gift presentation inscrptn to ffe (front free endpaper),and price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated, wrap-around sepia photographic illustrated dw/dj,with bronze gilt raised letters to front panel and bronze+black letters to rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks - though there is an internally sellotape repaired tiny snick,to foot of spine/backstrip's gutter edge to rear panel.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned but generally bright and clean; contents bright,tight,solid and sound - only one dog-ear reading crease to pp25/6.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain dark green cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and near immaculate,plain white eps - ffe excepted for aforementioned gift inscrptn.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xipp+1-298pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,credits, acknowledgements,5 chapters,profuse b/w maps/diagrams/illus/photographs (the majority) interspersed throughout the text and the book,16pp colour photographs in one block,between pp148/9,appendices(5),a biblio and an index.Plus [unpaginated], half-title+title pages and 10pp blanks at rear. Legend has it that in 210BC the first Emperor of unified China,Ch'in Shi Huangdi,decreed that after his death his body would be clothed in jade and cast adrift in a lake of mercury.The lake, within a pyramid,was to be protected by an everlasting army. Like Tutankhamun in Egypt,Lord Pacal in Mexico and Viracocha in Peru,Shi Huangdi taught the superscience of the sun and the higher orders of spirituality.They say that after he died he became a dragon and that he flew to the sun to live forever. In 1974,archaelogists discovered the first of more than 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors buried near the pyramid tomb of Shi Huangdi,confirming that the legend was more than myth.But why were the massive soldiers,each weighing more than half a tonne,buried there at all? Was it simply to guard the Emperor in the afterlife? With his knowledge of how and why the ancients encoded information into their treasures,super-sleuth engineer and scientist Maurice Cotterell decodes the long-lost secrets of China's terracotta army to reveal the farewell message of the first Emperor - the remarkable secrets of heaven,hell and immortality. In 1989 Maurice Cotterell found a way of calculating the duration of long-term magnetic reversals on the sun.Using this knowledge he was able to break the codes of ancient sun-worshipping civiisations - first the Mayas of central America,then those of Tutankhamun of Egypt and those of Viracocha in South America. His work,best described as 'adventure fact',brings together modern science, spirituality and ancient wisdom to unlock the secrets of the past,present and future. Please contact seller, for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded, after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** This item offered P+p included. Offer available UK only,unless indicated otherwise. ** ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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