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Author Noël Hume, Ivor

Title A passion for the past : the odyssey of a transatlantic archaeologist / Ivor Noël Hume
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 350 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; ACT ONE: In the Old World; 1. Off the Tumbrel; 2. Pour le Sport; 3. Poppet and Son; 4. Eggesford to Sutton Hoo; 5. Displaced Persons; 6. Yo-Yo Years; 7. Toward the Last All Clear; 8. Overture and Beginners; 9. Things That Went Bump; 10. Curtain Down; 11. Treasure from the Thames; 12. White Knights and Yellow Press; 13. Dead Birds and Stupid Statements; 14. A Bit o' the Old Roman; 15. Walbrook to Williamsburg; ACT TWO: In the New World; 16. Martinis, Bourbon, and Half-Read Plays; 17. Putting on a Show; 18. Lucy Locket and Martha Washington
19. Presidents and Pirates20. Virginia Is Forever; 21. National Geographic to the Rescue; 22. Bawn Again; 23. Following the Pharaohs; 24. A Museum for Wolstenholme Towne; 25. Handing the Baton; 26. Colonies Lost and Found; 27. Plunging to the Deep Ocean Floor in Bermuda; 28. Jamestown Discovered Yet Again; 29. A Really Big Party; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Illustrations
Notes Includes index
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Subject Noël Hume, Ivor
SUBJECT Noël Hume, Ivor. fast (OCoLC)fst00001879
Subject Archaeologists -- Great Britain -- Biography
Archaeologists -- United States -- Biography
Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- London
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Virginia.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Virginia -- Williamsburg
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities.
Archaeologists.
Excavations (Archaeology)
SUBJECT London (England) -- Antiquities
Virginia -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143756
Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va.) -- Antiquities
Subject England -- London.
Great Britain.
United States.
Virginia.
Virginia -- Williamsburg.
Virginia -- Williamsburg -- Colonial Williamsburg.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009051784
ISBN 9780813929965
0813929962
0813929776
9780813929774