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Letters from the desert : the correspondence of Flinders and Hilda Petrie / edited by Margaret Drower.
Penn Museum Library - Egyptian Collection CC115.P47 L48 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942--Correspondence.
- Petrie, W. M. Flinders.
- Petrie, Hilda, Lady--Correspondence.
- Petrie, Hilda.
- Petrie, Hilda, Lady.
- Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942.
- British.
- Social conditions.
- Archaeologists.
- Egyptologists.
- Egypt.
- Egyptologists--Correspondence.
- Archaeologists--Correspondence.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Egypt.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Palestine.
- British--Egypt--Social conditions.
- British--Palestine--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Biographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 261 pages, viii pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Park End Place, Oxford : Aris and Phillips ; Oakville : David Brown Book Co., [2004]
- Summary:
- Flinders Petrie began his long association with ancient Egypt and the Near East when he went to Giza to survey the pyramids in 1880. He continued to dig almost until his death in Jerusalem in 1942. During his long career he revolutionized Egyptian archaeology and indeed can be said to have founded modern scientific archaeology. But this book is not concerned with his scientific work, except tangentially, as Petrie had an admirable practice of publishing his excavations soon after they were completed. These letters and journals have been selected for their vivid account of living in Egypt and Palestine over sixty years. Even more they describe Petrie's austere approach to a dig where the archaeology was everything and creature comforts near nonexistent. Many anecdotes survive of life on one of Petrie's digs and the reality as revealed in these accounts is just as eccentric.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0856687480
- OCLC:
- 51108441
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