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Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, premier grand mayaniste de France
Häftad, 2015
479 kr
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Two hundred years ago, on September 8, 1814, in the northern French city of Bourbourg, a boy was born into a family of local entrepreneurs connected to the local political or judicial elite. The young Charles-Etienne Brasseur was lucky to spend days and days in the impressive library of Alexandre …
Percy Manning: The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire
Häftad, 2017
494 kr
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Percy Manning (1870-1917) was an Oxford antiquary who amassed enormous collections about the history of Oxford and Oxfordshire, which now constitute a valuable resource in Oxford University’s libraries and museums. Manning was interested in all periods of history and prehistory, collecting Stone …
Archaeological Activities of James Douglas in Sussex between 1809 and 1819
Av Malcolm Lyne
Häftad, 2017
251 kr
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James Douglas (1753-1819) was a polymath, well ahead of his time in both the fields of archaeology and earth-sciences. His examinations of fossils from the London Clay and other geological formations caused him to conclude that the Earth was much older than the 4004 BC allotted to it by his …
Shifting Sand: Journal of a cub archaeologist, Palestine 1964
Av Julian Berry
Häftad, 2017
293 kr
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Shifting Sand is the journal of Julian Berry, then a 17-year-old archaeologist, written on-site during excavations in Deir Alla, Jordan, in 1964. The dig was organized by the University of Leiden and led by Dr Henk Franken who was looking to find a material context for Old Testament narratives, and …
My dear Miss Ransom: Letters between Caroline Ransom Williams and James Henry Breasted, 1898-1935
Häftad, 2018
397 kr
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Caroline Louise Ransom Williams (1872-1952) is remembered as the first American university-trained female Egyptologist, but she is not widely-known in the history of science. Her mentor was James Henry Breasted, well-known as the first American Egyptologist and founder of the Oriental Institute at …
Life and Works of W.G. Collingwood
A wayward compass in Lakeland
Häftad, 2018
404 kr
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The son of a watercolour artist, William Gershom Collingwood (1854-1932) studied at University College, Oxford where he met John Ruskin, whose secretary he later became and with whom he shared a wide range of interests. Collingwood travelled extensively, sketching as he went, and after studying at …
Winifred Lamb: Aegean Prehistorian and Museum Curator
Häftad, 2018
479 kr
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Winifred Lamb was a pioneering archaeologist in the Aegean and Anatolia. She studied classics at Newnham College, Cambridge, and subsequently served in naval intelligence alongside J. D. Beazley during the final stages of the First World War. As war drew to a close, Sydney Cockerell, Director of …
From Cambridge to Lake Chad: Life in archaeology 1956–1971
Häftad, 2019
624 kr
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This book is about how the author became an archaeologist at a time when opportunities for employment were rare and how he worked as a field researcher in West Africa and wrote about his work there. It traces his archaeological training and employment at Cambridge and his practical experience on …
Aleksei P. Okladnikov: The Great Explorer of the Past. Volume I
A biography of a Soviet archaeologist (1900s - 1950s)
Häftad, 2019
413 kr
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Aleksei P. Okladnikov: The Great Explorer of the Past is about the life and works of Aleksei P. Okladnikov (1908– 1981), a prominent archaeologist who spent more than 50 years studying prehistoric sites in various parts of the Soviet Union – mainly in Siberia and Central Asia as well as in …
Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story so Far
An Autobiography
Häftad, 2020
413 kr
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A Classical Archaeologists’s Life: The Story so Far shows that a scholar’s life is not all scholarship, though much of this book is devoted to the writing of books and, especially, travel to classical and other lands. Boardman is a Londoner, born in Ilford and attending school in Essex (Chigwell). …
World of Disney: From Antiquarianism to Archaeology
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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Dr John Disney (1779-1857) was the benefactor of the first chair in archaeology at a British university. He also donated his major collection to the University of Cambridge. The sculptures continue to be displayed in the Fitzwilliam Museum.The Disney family traced its origins back to the Norman …
András Bodor and the History of Classical Studies in Transylvania in the 20th century
Av Csaba Szabo
Häftad, 2020
401 kr
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András Bodor and the history of classical studies in Transylvania in the 20th century is the first comprehensive work focusing on the life of a classicist from Transylvania, presenting in detail the life and academic heritage of András Bodor (1915-1999). Based on 1348 newly identified letters, 209 …
Life and Works of Robert Wood
Classicist and Traveller (1717-1771)
Av Rachel Finnegan, Lynda Mulvin
Häftad, 2022
413 kr
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The Life and Works of Robert Wood (1717-1771) commemorates the Irish classicist and traveller on the 250th anniversary of his death and provides the general reader with a study that can be regarded as a source book for the fascinating life and career of a much-neglected figure in the realm of Irish …
Well Met! Friends and Travelling Companions of Rev. Thomas Bowles
Journals of Travels in Egypt, Petra and the Near East, 1854
Häftad, 2023
700 kr
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Throughout the two years of a grand tour as far as Australia and New Zealand (1852-4), Rev Thomas Bowles kept a daily journal, ultimately filling over 1000 pages in 3 volumes. Transcribed here is the part of the journals which took Bowles from Sri Lanka to Egypt and the Levant then on home. The end …
Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist?
Letters from the Field 1968-1974
Häftad, 2023
479 kr
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Do I Really Want to Be an Archaeologist? is an edited collection of letters that Karen D. Vitelli wrote from pre-EU Greece and Turkey to family during her later years of graduate school and early field work (at Franchthi Cave, Gordion, and a training session at Corinth) through to the completion of …
History of the Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1949-2024
Av David J. Breeze, Tatiana Ivleva m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
586 kr
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In 1949, in the aftermath of a devastating war, Eric Birley organised the First Congress of Roman Frontier Studies. His aim was not only to pursue the study of Roman frontiers but also to take a step towards restoring harmony in international relations within this field of research. The pattern was …
Digging Lincoln
An Archaeological Memoir
Häftad, 2024
392 kr
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Digging Lincoln is a uniquely personal account of how a record of the city’s rich archaeology was recorded from the time of the early antiquaries through to the commercially funded professional teams of today, by someone who was closely involved in a senior capacity for over half a century. The …
Mosaic of Recollections
Memoirs of an Archaeologist
Häftad, 2025
558 kr
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A Mosaic of Recollections is the autobiography of David S. Neal, whose name has become synonymous with the study and illustration of Roman mosaics in Britain. It tells the story of a working-class boy, born into the travails of war-torn London, and his evacuation to South Wales to live with a …
Colonial Intrigues and My Dismissal as Director of Antiquities
A Memoir of Cyprus in the 1930s
Av John R. Hilton, Nicholas Stanley-Price
Häftad, 2025
558 kr
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In 1934 John Hilton , a newly qualified young architect, was surprised to find himself appointed the first Director of Antiquities in the British colony of Cyprus. His technical competence was not in doubt but his authority as director was challenged by a rival who enjoyed the confidence of the …
Excavating Ancient Egypt: Fifty Years of Archaeological Memories
Häftad, 2025
479 kr
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The excavation of archaeological sites in Egypt involves much more than the careful recovery and documentation of monuments and small finds. These activities take place in the context of a wide range of logistic and other tasks necessary for their initiation and smooth operation, an aspect of the …
Cretan Chronicle: An Archaeological Childhood
Häftad, 2026
494 kr
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Cretan Chronicle: An Archaeological Childhood is about love and stoicism.As a young child, Mary is uprooted from her home in Crete among an archaeological community and resettles in England. Revisiting Crete each year, Mary begins to assist her father, Sinclair Hood, in his fieldwork. The ruined …
Egypt Itself: The Career of Robert Hay of Linplum and Nunraw, 1799-1863
Häftad, 2026
715 kr
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The landed Scot, Robert Hay, is one of the best-known names among the pioneers of Egyptology. His forty-nine volumes of drawings, plans and water-colours, assembled in the 1820s and 1830s and now in the British Library, still form an invaluable record of the monuments of ancient Egypt. His …
Passionate Patron: The Life of Alexander Hardcastle and the Greek Temples of Agrigento
Häftad, 2009
251 kr
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In this account, Alexandra Richardson reveals (as she says in her introduction) her quest to get to know a ‘remarkable man who wholly dedicated his later life and finances to restoring and excavating what is surely one of the finest classical Greek sites in the Western Mediterranean. I rapidly …
Distant Prospect of Wessex: Archaeology and the Past in the Life and Works of Thomas Hardy.
Häftad, 2011
259 kr
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If the real Wessex, with its counties, towns, villages and topography, was no mere readily available template upon which Hardy could carve a fictional pattern, Dorchester provided a very different model, though at the level of local colour and detail, Casterbridge really is Dorchester 'by any other …
Bryan Faussett: Antiquary Extraordinary
Av David Wright
Häftad, 2015
448 kr
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A biography of Bryan Faussett, F.S.A., (1720-1776), pioneering Kent genealogist, archaeologist and antiquary who, at his death, had amassed the world’s greatest collection of Anglo-Saxon jewellery and antiquities. The material was famously rejected by the British Museum, saved for the nation by a …
