During the 1990’s I purchased a LOT of books that catered to my love of history, especially ancient history. I spent hours reading them and pouring of the illustrations and maps. They are books that have survived several moves because I considered these books reference books that I would dip in and out of over the years.
But guess what?
I haven’t. So this is a record of books that meant a lot to me at one time of my life. They provided the joy and nourishment of being a beautiful object full of fascinating information. But now they are clutter.
The Story of Archaeology: The 100 Great Discoveries | editor Paul G. Bahn (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1996)
Purchased: 14 May 1997 Mudgee
“Although the idea that humankind was tens of thousands of years old had existed among the Greeks, Egyptians, Assyrians and Babylonians, as well as in ancient Mesoamerica, in the scholarship of medieval Europe the only framework for human affairs and the origin of the world lay in written documents, and especially the Bible.”
The Cassell Atlas of World History: The Ancient & Classical World Vol One | John Haywood, Charkes Freeman, Paul Garwood & Judith Toms (Cassell, 2000)
Purchased: 2 September 2000
“Four million years of biological & cultural evolution are covered in this story of the development of humankind from its origins on the African savanna to the appearance of literate civilisations & classical empires.”
The Atlas of Past Worlds: A Comparative Chronology of Human History 2000BC – AD1500 | John Manley (Cassell, 1993)
Purchased: 7 April 1993 Bathurst
“This book is designed to illustrate what human beings, through the societies they formed and the settlements they built & occupied, accomplished around the world at specific intervals in our history.“
Wonders of the Ancient World | Norman Hammond (The National Geographic Society, 1999)
Purchased: 20 April 1999 Mudgee
“In 1836, the American traveller John Lloyd Stephens went to what he called the ‘ancient and extraordinary’ city of Petra, now one of the great archaeological treasires of Jordon.“
(This) Authentic Life 