Pleasures of Archaeology: Visa to Yesterday - Hardcover

This book is a lucid and enthusiastic introduction to the arts and lives of vanished peoples. What distinguishes the book from others on the subject is its focus on the pleasures awaiting the curious amateur as he paces off the puzzling "Aubrey Holes" around Stonehenge, as he climbs with the author to scan the view from the grim heights of Masada, or catches his first glimpse -as Malraux did by flashlight - of the exuberant murals of Lascaux.