"The first consideration on reaching Egypt was where to be housed. In those days there was no luxurious close to the ;…"

"In 1893-1894 I went to to search for remains of the dynastic race, which presumably had entered Egypt at that point f…"

"In few kinds of work are the results so directly dependent on the personality of the worker as they are in excavating…"

"To the Egyptian the gods might be mortal; even , the sun-god, is said to have grown old and feeble, was slain, and , …"

"From the ' diggers, I secured a lot of seventy-five Attic s in perfect condition, which served to show the accuracy o…"

"Flinders Petrie had no school or university training. His mother was the only child of , a naval officer who served u…"

"In 1880 … Petrie set out on an expedition to Egypt long contemplated and prepared for, but delayed in the fruitless h…"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"