Did the self-made man fake it with Bohemian fossils?
Richard Fortey: Jacques Deprat, 25 November 1999
The Deprat Affair: Ambition, Revenge and Deceit in French Indochina
by Roger Osborne.
Cape, 244 pp., £15.99, October 1999,0 224 05295 0 Show More
by Roger Osborne.
Cape, 244 pp., £15.99, October 1999,
“... Humiliated and ruined, he apparently disappeared; and that should have been the end of the matter. But it is more interesting than that. In 1926, a novel was published called Les Chiens aboient (‘The Baying Hounds’), by one Herbert Wild. It recounts the ordeal of a young and brilliant geologist suffering the ... ”