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Title: The History of Archaeology: Great Excavations of the World by John Romer, Elizabeth Romer ISBN: 0-8160-4626-3 Publisher: Facts on File Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1 (1 review)
Rating: 1
Summary: Not up to Romer's Usual Standard
Comment: I am a historian and archaeology buff, and longtime fan of John Romer's works. I anxiously awaited this book, and was horribly disappointed once I got into it. This is not really a history of archaeology, but Romer's thoughts on certain archaeologists and digs, or his leftover notes from earlier books. It skips about in time and locale to such an extent that almost any chapter can be read alone, and the book can be read in any order. Romer totally omits any mention of Marine Archaeology, despite its enormous significance over the past 20 years. Worse, there are factual errors. For example, the modern Olympic Games of 1900 took place in Paris, not Athens, which hosted the first games in 1896 (p. 180). Moreover, neither tennis courts nor swimming pools were built for the 1896 Games. The tennis took place at a club in Athens and the swimmers competed in the ocean, where several quit due to the extreme cold. Most disappointing to me, Romer's usually lilting prose is absent much of the time. There are all manner of grammar and syntax errors. For example, on page 198 "...then converted to an opera house in the nineteenth century whose acoustics were said to be the best in Europe." He has Henirich Schliemann rushing "hither and thither" about Mycenae on page 110 and again on 111. Both style and format are distracting, making it hard to follow. This could have been a fabulous book, but it is not, and certainly not worth the price!
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Title: Testament: The Bible and History by John Romer ISBN: 0805009396 Publisher: Henry Holt & Co Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Seven Wonders of the World: A History of the Modern Imagination by John Romer, Elizabeth Romer ISBN: 184188037X Publisher: Seven Dials Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Valley of the Kings by John Romer ISBN: 184212045X Publisher: Sterling Publishing Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: In the Footsteps of Alexander The Great: A Journey from Greece to Asia by Michael Wood ISBN: 0520231929 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 06 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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