Julie Hankey is the granddaughter of Arthur Weigall and has had access to previously unseen private papers in researching his life.

The picture which emerges from A Passion for Egypt is as sympathetic as it is vivid ..it succeeds in recapturing a man who was both endearing and an enfant terrible...the varied aspects of a complex man are brought together, and the result is eloquent and altogether benign.

• Part One 1880 - 19141 'that violent hullabaloo'2 'select establishments'3 From pedigrees to hieroglyphs4 Egypt 'like a house on fire'5 Private idyll; Howard Carter; public ideal6 Yuya and Tuya, and Weigall 'Bashmufetish'7 The flooding of Nubia; the Tombs of the Nobles8 Another royal tomb: Queen Tiy? Akhnaten?9 The Eastern Desert; 'odium archaeologicum'10 Gaiety; Akhnaten; and Howard Carter again11 Maspero; the Autocrat of Thebes; Akhnaten's curse12 Alan Gardiner at Gurneh; high life in Luxor13 'Egyptologists are themselves... the worst vandals'14 Breakdown; the bronze; the war for Egypt's heritage15 Scandal, schemes, and Egyptology for EgyptiansPart Two 1914 - 193416 From Egypt to the West End17 Experiments in theatre and film18 Novelist and film critic19 Tut-ankh-Carter and TutCarnarvon20 American lecture tour; Carter again; and divorce21 Egyptian chronology; English monuments22 The Old Brigade versus the moderns23 History again: beating the Philistines24 Shutting the doorAppendix: the concession allowing Theodore Davis to dig in the Valley of the KingsSourcesNotes and ReferencesIndex

Julie Hankey is the granddaughter of Arthur Weigall and has had access to previously unseen private papers in researching his life.

The picture which emerges from A Passion for Egypt is as sympathetic as it is vivid ..it succeeds in recapturing a man who was both endearing and an enfant terrible...the varied aspects of a complex man are brought together, and the result is eloquent and altogether benign.

• Part One 1880 - 19141 'that violent hullabaloo'2 'select establishments'3 From pedigrees to hieroglyphs4 Egypt 'like a house on fire'5 Private idyll; Howard Carter; public ideal6 Yuya and Tuya, and Weigall 'Bashmufetish'7 The flooding of Nubia; the Tombs of the Nobles8 Another royal tomb: Queen Tiy? Akhnaten?9 The Eastern Desert; 'odium archaeologicum'10 Gaiety; Akhnaten; and Howard Carter again11 Maspero; the Autocrat of Thebes; Akhnaten's curse12 Alan Gardiner at Gurneh; high life in Luxor13 'Egyptologists are themselves... the worst vandals'14 Breakdown; the bronze; the war for Egypt's heritage15 Scandal, schemes, and Egyptology for EgyptiansPart Two 1914 - 193416 From Egypt to the West End17 Experiments in theatre and film18 Novelist and film critic19 Tut-ankh-Carter and TutCarnarvon20 American lecture tour; Carter again; and divorce21 Egyptian chronology; English monuments22 The Old Brigade versus the moderns23 History again: beating the Philistines24 Shutting the doorAppendix: the concession allowing Theodore Davis to dig in the Valley of the KingsSourcesNotes and ReferencesIndex

Julie Hankey is the granddaughter of Arthur Weigall and has had access to previously unseen private papers in researching his life.

The picture which emerges from A Passion for Egypt is as sympathetic as it is vivid ..it succeeds in recapturing a man who was both endearing and an enfant terrible...the varied aspects of a complex man are brought together, and the result is eloquent and altogether benign.

• Part One 1880 - 19141 'that violent hullabaloo'2 'select establishments'3 From pedigrees to hieroglyphs4 Egypt 'like a house on fire'5 Private idyll; Howard Carter; public ideal6 Yuya and Tuya, and Weigall 'Bashmufetish'7 The flooding of Nubia; the Tombs of the Nobles8 Another royal tomb: Queen Tiy? Akhnaten?9 The Eastern Desert; 'odium archaeologicum'10 Gaiety; Akhnaten; and Howard Carter again11 Maspero; the Autocrat of Thebes; Akhnaten's curse12 Alan Gardiner at Gurneh; high life in Luxor13 'Egyptologists are themselves... the worst vandals'14 Breakdown; the bronze; the war for Egypt's heritage15 Scandal, schemes, and Egyptology for EgyptiansPart Two 1914 - 193416 From Egypt to the West End17 Experiments in theatre and film18 Novelist and film critic19 Tut-ankh-Carter and TutCarnarvon20 American lecture tour; Carter again; and divorce21 Egyptian chronology; English monuments22 The Old Brigade versus the moderns23 History again: beating the Philistines24 Shutting the doorAppendix: the concession allowing Theodore Davis to dig in the Valley of the KingsSourcesNotes and ReferencesIndex