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Letters from the Desert
Margaret S. Drower
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Description for Letters from the Desert
Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 224 pages, b/w and col illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; BGHA; BJ; HDDG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 857.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780856687488
SKU
V9780856687488
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About Margaret S. Drower
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Letters from the Desert
What a service Peggy Drower has done in bringing to life for us these remarkable people.' Destined to be a classic' a fascinating and highly readable book,' entertaining, informative and occasionally hilarious' ...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 ... Read more