Contents -- Sources and Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Preface to the Second Edition -- I. The Flinders and the Petries -- II. The Making of an Archaeologist (1853-80) -- III. The Pyramid Survey (1880-82) -- IV. "Father of Pots": Delta Explorations (1883-6) -- V. Up the Nile (1886-7) -- VI. Pyramids and Portraits (1887-9) -- VII. Interlude in Palestine (1889-90) -- VIII. Tussles with M. Grebaut (1890-2) -- IX. University College, London (1892-7) -- X. Hilda (1896-8) -- XI. Most Ancient Egypt (1899-1903) -- XII. Naville and Petrie: A Clash of Personalities (1903) -- XIII. The British School (1906-11) -- XIV. Amulets in the Soup (1911-14) -- XV. The War Years (1914-19) -- XVI. Egypt over the Border (1919-30) -- XVII. Jubilee (1930-33) -- XVIII. Lone Syrian Shore (1934-8) -- XIX. Sunset in Jerusalem (1938-42) -- Notes and References.