The Wilderness of Zin - Hardcover

Lawrence, T. E.; Woolley, C. Leonard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1575060779 ISBN 13: 9781575060774

Publisher: Eisenbrauns, 2003

Synopsis

In their famous six-weeks’ survey of southern Palestine for the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1914, the archaeologists C. Leonard Woolley and T. E. Lawrence covered large tracts of the desert wilderness, studying monuments of numerous periods, from the prehistoric to the Islamic. Their records were first published in 1915. Not only was this work significant as an archaeological and historical record, but it also represented an astonishing feat on the part of Woolley and Lawrence, characteristic of the indefatigable spirit and polymathic interests of so many explorer-scholars in the Levant during the 19th and early 20th centuries. This new publication by Eisenbrauns includes previously unpublished letters and photographs, including several by T. E. Lawrence, and other material relating to the work still housed in the Palestine Exploration Fund’s archives. In this revised edition, readers will be able to enjoy one of the most famous archaeological surveys ever carried out and appreciate Woolley and Lawrence’s work in a fuller context.

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About the Author:

T.E.Lawerence is famous as "Lawerence of Arabia" and World War One hero made famous by the film. This book Seven Pillars of Wisdom is a modern classic as is his book "The Mint" published after his death in a motor cycle accident in Dorset. C Leonard Wolley was born in London in l880 and worked with Lawerence from 1912-1914. He wrote some 25 books,best known are "Digging up the Past" 1930, "Spadework" in 1953 and is "Excavation at Ur" in 1957. He died in 1960.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eisenbrauns
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1575060779
• ISBN 13: 9781575060774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416