In search of Byzantium
Subtitle: a biography : the life of Robert Pierpont Blake
By: edited by Igor Robert Blake.
Contributors: Blake, Igor Robert, 1928-
Publisher: Campbell Brothers Print.]
Published: 1996
Place of publication: [Lafayette, CA?
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Blake, Robert Pierpont, 1886-1950; Historians -- United States -- Biography; Biblical scholars -- United States -- Biography; Orientalists -- United States -- Biography; Scholars -- United States -- Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-238) and index.
"This account of the life and works of Robert Pierpont Blake starts with his Biographical Information prepared for Harvard in 1947, just two and a half years before his untimely death on May 9, 1950. The book includes his own lively writings covering his life in Russia between 1914 and 1920 ..., followed by an account of the expeditions he participated in during his years at Harvard and finally the events at the close of his career"--Introduction, p. vi.