A Passion for the Past: The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist Tapa dura - 2010

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University of Virginia Press, 2010. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

University of Virginia Press, 2010. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket rubbed.. 2010. First Printing. Hardcover. 0813929776 . xvii, 350pp. Acknowledgments, black and white photo section, and index. Autobiography by the noted author and former director of Colonial Williamsburg's archaeological research program. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

University of Virginia Press, 2010-08-12. Hardcover. Like New. Signed by the author without personalization. First edition. Book and dust jacket are in like new condition. Not ex-library.

University of Virginia Press, 2010. 350pp. Green cloth spine with light green board covers, DJ VG, First Printing, top edge of DJ has slight wrinkle, index, b&w photos, renowned archaeologist turns to his own life, sharing with the reader a story that begins amid the bombed-out rubble of post–World War II London and ends on North Carolina’s Roanoke Island, where the history of British America began, . First Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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Hardback. New. Ivor Noel Hume has devoted his life to uncovering countless lives that came before him. In A Passion for the Past the world-renowned archaeologist turns to his own life, sharing with the reader a story that begins amid the bombed-out rubble of post-World War II London and ends on North Carolina's Roanoke Island, where the history of British America began. Weaving the personal with the professional, this is the chronicle of an extraordinary life steered by coincidence scarcely believable even as fiction. Born into the good life of pre-Depression England, Noel Hume was a child of the 1930s who had his silver spoon abruptly snatched away when the war began. By its end he was enduring a period of Dickensian poverty and clinging to aspirations of becoming a playwright. Instead, he found himself collecting antiquities from the shore of the river Thames and, stumbling upon this new passion, becoming an "accidental" archaeologist. From those beginnings emerged a career… Leer más

University of Virginia Press, 2010. Hardcover. New. 384 pages. 9.50x6.40x1.20 inches.

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