A Passion for the Past: The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist

by Ivor Noël Hume

Book Overview

Ivor No l 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813929776
• ISBN13: 9780813929774
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher