Petra

By Iain Browning

Book Overview

book has many illustrations and photographs of the city of Petra along with detailed photographs of artifacts dug during excavations-Petra by Iain Browing. Published by Chatto & Windus, London 1980.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0701126221
• ISBN13: 9780701126223
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

petra and other books by iain browning

nice information about the olds cities and some nice impressions about how it was or could have been. the scientific quality is difficult to evaluate and need more other reading

Browning's Petra is out of date, but worth a look.

Ian Browning's Petra is longwinded, out of date and at times completely wrong. It does, however, contain some of the reconstruction illustrations of the ancient Nabataean capital ever done. Browning also devotes a sizable portion of the book to presenting the inhabitants of this ancient commercial capital as living breathing people. This is more than just guidebook and visitors to Petra have much to thank Browning for. The book is still readily available in Petra, should you get the opportunity to visit the enchanting and magical "rose red city, half as old as time."