Letters from the Desert: The Correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

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Beskrivning

Flinders Petrie began his long association with ancient Egypt and the Near East when he went to Giza to survey the pyramids in 1880. Until his death in 1942, he dug almost continuously. During his long career Petrie revolutionised Egyptian archaeology but this book is not about his scientific work or finds, which are published elsewhere. The letters and journals that make up this book have been selected by Margaret Drower for the vivid picture they paint of living in Egypt and Palestine over sixty years. They describe Petrie's austere approach to excavating and life on a dig where creature comforts were non-existent. Petrie married in 1897 and many of Hilda's accounts of workmen, villagers and dig life are just as fascinating and vibrant. Above all they reveal how she took to dig life like a duck to water.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2004-06-15
Mått:149 x 210 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Aris & Phillips Classical Texts
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9780856687488

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Margaret Drower is formerly Reader in Ancient History at University College London, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Departments of History and Egyptology at University College London. As a young student of Egyptology in the 1930s she is also one of the last people alive to have been taught by Petrie himself at University College London. She is the author of the definitive biography of Flinders Petrie (2nd ed, University of Wisconsin Press 1995).

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...Letter from the Desert is both a fun and an enlightening book.[...]Margaret Drowers work provides a true and enjoyable description of a world that most know only through fictional accounts. This is a worthy addition to nonfiction and fiction treatments of both Egyptology and archaeology.'

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; Introduction; 1880-1884 From surveyor to excavator; 1886-1892 In the field; 1892-1896 Edwards Professor of Egyptology; 1897-1921 With Hilda in Egypt; 1926-1935 Excavating in Palestine.