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AT least one reader of Sir Flinders Petrie's autobiography must admit to closing the book with a feeling of disappointment. It falls between two stools. The general reader, who is no Egyptologist, will look to its author in the hope of gaining perspective in a review of archæological discovery in Egypt during the last fifty years, but he will find that the book confines itself strictly within the limitations of its title as a personal record of work in the field year by year since 1880, when Sir Flinders first went to Egypt. The Egyptologist, on the other hand, will regard it as too brief, too summary in its descriptions, to serve as anything more than a reminder of where the author was digging in any given year. From one who is our greatest pioneer and systematiser in archæological exploration, the most prominent and the most striking figure in British archæology in the present century, a broader view of his own work and its relation to archæological studies might legitimately be expected.
Seventy Years in Archælogy.
By Sir Flinders Petrie. Pp. viii + 284 + 26 plates. (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., n.d.) 18s. net.
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[Short Reviews]. Nature 129, 708 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129708d0
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