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Jan Karon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels in the Mitford series, featuring Episcopal priest Father Tim Kavanagh. She has authored twelve other books, including Jan Karon's Mitford Cookbook and Kitchen Reader, and several titles for children. Jan lives in Virginia near the World Heritage site of Jefferson's Monticello.

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AT HOME IN MITFORD In the first of fourteen Mitford novels, we meet Father Tim, an Episcopal rector yearning for more . . . until he finds himself with more than he can handle. The introduction of a dog as big as a sofa, a beautiful next-door neighbor, and the abandoned eleven-year-old Dooley shake up Father Tim's comfortable bachelor routines. He begins a new life, shedding old habits and embracing unfamiliar ones, and emerging from his cocoon along the way. He arrived at the office, uttering the prayer he had offered at its door every morning for twelve years: 'Father, make me a blessing to someone today, through Christ our Lord. Amen.' As he took the key from his pocket, he felt something warm and disgustingly wet on his hand. He looked down into the face of a large, black, mud-caked dog, whose tail began to beat wildly against his pant leg. 'Good grief!' he said, wiping his hand on his windbreaker. At that, the dog leaped up and licked his face, sending a shower of saliva into his right ear. 'Get away! Be gone!' he shouted. He tried to protect the notebook he was carrying, but the dog gave it a proper licking before he could stuff it in his jacket, then tried to snatch it from him. 'Down!' he commanded, at which the dog leaped up and gave his chin a bath. He tried to fend the animal off with his elbow, while inserting the key in the office door. If he were a cussing man, he reasoned, this would offer a premier opportunity to indulge himself. '"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth,"' he quoted in a loud voice from Ephesians, '"but that which is good to the use of edifying . . ."' Suddenly, the dog sat down and looked at his prey with fond admiration. -Chapter 1 Barnabas    Father Tim visits his elderly-and favorite-parishioner at the big house on the hill above Mitford. Miss Sadie held her hands out to the rector. 'At Fernbank,' she said, 'we always hold hands when we say the blessing.' He prayed with a contented heart. 'Accept, O Lord, our thanks and praise for all that you've done for us. We thank you for the blessing of family and friends, and for the loving care which surrounds us on every side. Above all, we give you thanks for the great mercies and promises given to us in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whose name we pray.' 'Amen!' they said in unison. -Chapter 5 The Big Six-O    In this scene, Father Tim is speaking with Uncle Billy Watson, who worries that he'll lose his home. Father Tim has offered to look into a special dispensation from the town that will allow Billy and his schizophrenic wife, Miss Rose, to have a life estate. 'Well, Preacher, you've took a load off my mind, and that's a fact. I've been wrestlin' with this f'r a good while, and I'm just goin' to set it down in th' road and leave it.' 'That's a good plan, Uncle Billy. God asks us not to worry about tomorrow.' 'That's a hard one, Preacher.' 'It is. And it takes practice. Just stick with today, is what he recommends. Of course, it helps to stick with him, while we're at it.' 'I've been stickin' with him a good many years. Not like I ought to, but I want t' do better, don't you know.' 'Why don't we have a prayer?' He put his arm around Uncle Billy's shoulders. 'Father, we thank you for Bill Watson's faith in you, and for his willingness to let you be in control. We turn this matter over to you now, and ask for the wisdom to proceed, through Christ, our Lord. Amen.' -Chapter 6 Dooley    Father Tim muses on anxiety and faith. After morning prayer, he studied the challenging message of Luke 12: 'Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat, nor about your body, what you shall put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 'Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?' There was not one man in a thousand who considered these words more than poetical vapor, he thought as he dressed. Don't be anxious? Most mortals considered anxiety, and plenty of it, an absolute requirement for getting the job done. Yet, over and over again, the believer was cautioned to abandon anxiety, and look only to God. Whatever else that might be, it certainly wasn't common sense. But 'common sense is not faith,' Oswald Chambers had written, 'and faith is not common sense.' -Chapter 7 The One for the Job    The rector visits Lord's Chapel on an errand and makes a startling discovery. As he paused to let his eyes adjust to the dimness of the Lord's Chapel nave, he heard a strange sound. Then, toward the front, on the gospel side, he saw a man kneeling in a pew. Suddenly, the man uttered such a desperate cry that the rector's heart fairly thundered. Give me wisdom, he prayed for the second time that morning. Then he stood waiting. He didn't know for what. 'If you're up there, prove it! Show me! If you're God, you can prove it!' In the visitor's voice was a combination of anger, and odd hope. 'I'll never ask you this again,' the man said, and then, with a fury that chilled his listener, he shouted again, 'Are . . . you . . . up . . . there?' With what appeared to be utter exhaustion, the stranger put his head in his hands as the question reverberated in the nave. Father Tim slipped into the pew across the aisle and knelt on the cushion. 'You may be asking the wrong question.' Startled, the man raised his head. 'I believe the question you may want to ask is "Are you down here?"' 'What kind of joke is that?' 'It isn't a joke.' The man was neatly dressed, the rector observed, and his suit and tie appeared to be expensive. A businessman, obviously. Successful, quite likely. Not from Mitford, certainly. 'God wouldn't be God if He were only up there. In fact, another name for Him is Immanuel, which means "God with us."' He was amazed at the casual tone of his voice, as if they'd met here to chat for a while. 'He's with us right now, in this room.' The man looked at him. 'I'd like to believe that, but I can't. I can't feel Him at all. The things I've done . . .' 'Have you asked Him to forgive the things you've done?' 'I assure you that God would not want to do that.' 'Believe it or not, I can promise that He would. In fact, He promises that He will. Would you like to ask Him into your life?' The stranger stared into the darkened sanctuary. 'I can't do it, I've tried.' 'It isn't a test you have to pass. It doesn't require discipline and intelligence . . . not even strength and perseverance. It only requires faith.' 'I don't think I've got that.' There was a long silence. 'But I'd be willing to try . . . one more time.' 'Will you pray a simple prayer with me . . . on faith?' He looked up. 'What do I have to lose?' 'Nothing to lose, everything to gain.' Father Tim rose from the kneeler and took the short step across the aisle, where he laid his hands on the man's head. 'If you could repeat this,' he said. 'Thank you, God, for loving me, and for sending your Son to die for my sins. I sincerely repent of my sins, and receive Christ as my personal savior. Now, as your child, I turn my entire life over to you. Amen.' The man repeated the prayer, and they were silent. 'Is that all?' he asked the rector. 'That's all.' 'I don't know . . . what I'm supposed to feel.' 'Whatever you feel is exactly what you're supposed to feel.' -Chapter 11 A White Thanksgiving    A boy abandoned by his parents comes into the bachelor priest's life. Dooley yawned and turned over. ''night,' he said. ''night,' said the rector, putting his hand on the boy's shoulder. Father, he prayed, silent, thank you for sending this boy into my life. Thank you for the joy and the sorrow he brings. Be with him always, to surround him with right influences, and when tests of any kind must come, give him wisdom and strength to act according to your will. Look over his mother, also, and the other children, wherever they are. Feed and clothe them, keep them from harm, and bring them one day into a full relationship with your Son. He sat for a long time with his hand on the sleeping boy's shoulder, feeling his heart moved with tenderness. -Chapter 17 A Surprising Question    For months things have gone missing in the church-like a special Bible and an Orange Marmalade Cake. Father Tim and the congregation are shocked to discover that someone has been living in the attic and has been listening intently to Father Tim's sermons and prayers. As he offered the prayer, he heard a harsh, grating noise somewhere behind him in the sanctuary. He saw the entire congregation sitting with open mouths and astonished faces, gazing toward the ceiling. He turned around with a pounding heart, to see that the attic stairs had been let down and that someone in bare feet was descending. He heard a single intake of breath from the congregation, a communal gasp. As the man reached the floor and stood beside the altar, he turned and gazed out at them. He was tall and very thin, with a reddish beard and shoulder-length hair. His clothing fit loosely, as if it had been bought for someone else. Yet, the single most remarkable thing about the incident, the rector would later say, wasn't the circumstances of the man's sudden appearance, but the unmistakable radiance on his face. 'I have a confession to make to you,' the man said to the congregation in a voice so clear, it seemed to lift the rafters. He looked at the rector, 'If you'll give me the privilege, Father.' The man walked out in front of the communion rail and stood on the steps. 'My name,' he said, 'is George Gaynor. For the last several months, your church has been my home-and my prison. You see, I've been living behind the death bell in your attic.' There was perfect silence in the nave. 'Until recently, this was profoundly symbolic of my life, for it was, in fact, a life of death. 'When I was a kid, I went to a church like this. An Episcopal church in Vermont where my uncle was the rector. I even thought about becoming a priest, but I learned the money was terrible. And, you see, I liked money. My father and mother liked money. 'We gave a lot of it to the church. We added a wing, we put on a shake roof, we gave the rector a Cadillac. 'It took a while to figure out what my uncle and my father were doing. My father would give thousands to the church and write it off, my uncle would keep a percentage and put the remainder in my father's Swiss bank account. Six hundred thousand dollars flowed through the alms basin into my uncle's cassock. 'When I was twelve, I began carrying on the family tradition. 'The first thing I stole was a skateboard. Later, I stole a car, and I had no regrets. My father knew everybody from the police chief to the governor. I was covered, right down the line. 'I went to the university and did pretty well. For me, getting knowledge was like getting money, getting things. It made me strong, it made me powerful. I got a Ph.D. in economics, and when I was thirty-three, I had tenure at one of the best colleges in the country. 'Then, I was in a plane crash. It was a small plane that belonged to a friend. I lay in the wreckage with the pilot, who was killed instantly, and my mother and father, who would die . . . hours later. I was pinned in the cockpit in freezing temperatures for three days, unable to move. 'Both legs were broken, my skull was fractured, the radio was demolished. Maybe you can guess what I did-I made a deal with God. 'Get me out of here, I said, and I'll clean up my act, I'll make up for what my father, my uncle, all of us, had done. 'Last summer, a friend of mine, an antique dealer, had too much to drink. He took me to his warehouse and pulled an eighteenth-century table out of the corner, and unscrewed one of its legs. 'What he pulled out of that table leg was roughly two and a half million dollars' worth of rare gems, which he'd stolen from a museum in England, in the Berkshires. 'I'd just gotten a divorce after two years of marriage, and I'd forgotten any deal I made with God in the cockpit of that Cessna. 'The bottom line is that nothing mattered to me anymore.' George Gaynor sat down on the top step leading to the communion rail. He might have been talking to a few intimate friends in his home. 'The British authorities had gotten wind of the stuff going out of England in shipments of antiques, and my friend couldn't fence the jewels because of the FBI. 'One night, I emptied a ninety-dollar bottle of cognac into him. He told me he had hidden the jewels in one of his antique cars. I stole the keys and went to his warehouse with a hex-head wrench. I rolled under a 1937 Packard, removed the oil pan, and took the jewels home in a bag. 'I packed a few things, then I walked out on the street and stole a car. I changed the tag and started driving. I headed south.' He stood with his hands in his pockets. 'I hadn't spoken to God in years. To tell the truth, I'd never really spoken to God but once in my life. Yet, I remembered some language from the prayer book. '"Bless the Lord who forgiveth all our sins. His mercy endureth forever." That's what came to me as I drove. I pulled off the road and put my head down and prayed for mercy and forgiveness. 'I'd like to tell you that a great peace came over me, but I can't tell you that. There was no peace, but there was direction. I began to have a sense of where I was going, like I was attached to a fishing line, and somebody at the other end was reeling me in.

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Hardcover: 240 pages

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons (October 30, 2018)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0525537562

ISBN-13: 978-0525537564

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4.8 out of 5 stars

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This book will be a welcome addition to the shelves of die-hard Mitford fans, of which I am one, but be warned: 95% of this book is material, quoted verbatim, from previous Mitford books. Outside of Karon's foreword and a brief sentence of two introduction of each chapter, it's all material from the other books. Now, I love Mitford, but this bothered me a teeny bit. Essentially, you are paying for a hardcover book that you've already read. Karon is leaving Mitford, a fact for which I am deeply saddened, so I suppose this is her going out, so to speak. I still wished I'd known this before I purchased the book. It still garners 4 stars cause it's ….well, MITFORD!

Welcome home to Mitford and the heartfelt prayer life of "Father Tim Kavanagh"! I adore this compilation of prayers and moments from the Mitford series and will soon be underlining, dog-earring and highlighting each passage that touched my heart. Tears will flow by page 4 (!) as Jan's testimony sheds light on her God-filled purpose all captured in the setting of a small town and a priest with a big heart. Thrilled to have this all in one beautiful book!

Jan Karon never disappoints. I have read the entire series several time and this compilation is a way to do a quick re-read of some of my favorite parts.However, as a note to the editor, page 221 of my book is missing. I preordered, so I know my copy was an early printing. The book is missing page 221 and has an acknowledgment page instead of page 221. It resumes on page 222 and continues to the end, which concludes with a second identical acknowledgment page. As an owner of the entire Mitford series, I wish my copy of the new book was complete. But it did not take away from my enjoyment of the overal read. (And I will forever wonder what is on page 221!

If you have followed the Mitford series and fell in love with Father Tim you will love this beautiful book of his prayers and sermons compiled into this one book. I bought as a gift for a friend, as I have bought many Mitford series books for, and she loved it! I'm going to buy one for myself now!

A nice revisiting if you have read all of the other books in the series.I, too, had the same problem with my book that Cheryl B. noted in her review, but mine was not a gifted book from the publisher. I ordered it from Amazon.

I felt touched reading this book. A feeling of peacefulness and renewed faith in God and his word.i have read several of Jan karons mitford books and have loved each one and look forward to another one.

Purchased as a gift for my fellow Jan Karon loving best friend. Just a sweet little book you can pick up and read a page or two. My copy, however, was bound upside down and backwards by mistake and I didn’t check it before I gave it to my friend. We both had a good laugh over her “unique “ copy!

Complete joy in this compilation of the prayers and defining comments about all the books of Father Tim’s. This compendium is an inspirational gift .

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Paperback: 352 pages

Publisher: Princeton University Press; Reprint edition (September 19, 2017)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0691178321

ISBN-13: 978-0691178325

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This interdisciplinary work about mushrooms is a stimulating antidote to a lot of conventional wisdom about economics. Matsutake grows opportunistically on the roots of pine trees -- it can't be cultivated, nor, despite demand, can production scaled up in a conventional way. To get more matsutake you need to create conditions for more pine trees -- but you also need to forage, and understand a lot else about the forest environment. Those who gather matsutake aren't alienated from their work: the book's ethnographic chapters expose the multitude of meanings the process can have for those who gather the mushrooms. Nor do the usual "laws" of supply and demand apply: in some communities there is pressure for the prices to be paid to gatherers to go upwards.I plan to use this book in a college course about sustainability for business majors: I'm looking forward to their grappling with these ideas so contrary to Econ 101. Unlike other reviewers I don't see any evidence that the author (ALT) misunderstands basic economics -- but their view shows how confusing it may be for some readers to have their orthodoxy challenged. That's exactly why I think it's a useful book. In addition, the book has many interesting passages in its own right. For example, before reading this book I didn't know that mushrooms like matsutake are beneficial to the trees on whose roots they grow -- I thought they were "just" parasites. The importance of matsutake to various Southeast Asian immigrant groups in the Pacific Northwest was also something I'd had no inkling of previously.The main weak point of the book is that it speaks in an overly general way about Japan. The assertion that matsutake serve as gifts in Japanese society is repeated often in the text (e.g., @8, 62, 124-126). The suggestion also seems to be that the matsutake have meaning to those who pick them (as illustrated in the book's ethnographic chapters, set mostly outside Japan); then are turned into commodities farther down in the chain of commerce by participants who are indifferent to the circumstances of the mushrooms' harvesting; and then, when presented as gifts by someone who simply bought them, are meant to take on a more personal meaning again.There are two problematic aspects of these claims: are matsutake really given as gifts? and if so, are they the same matsutake as described in the ethnographic chapters? It turns out the answers to these questions are: rarely, and no.It's not at all a common practice in Japan for matsutake to be presented as a gift by someone who bought it as a commodity. I currently live in Iwate Prefecture, a northeastern rural area that is the #2 domestic producer of matsutake; before that I lived for a number of years in a Tokyo neighborhood well-known for preserving old traditions (Kagurazaka, in Shinjuku-ku). In neither place did I ever observe matsutake being used as a gift, unless the giver had picked it himself or herself on the same day (not possible in Tokyo!). My wife, who was born in Iwate but who lived in many areas all over Japan while growing up, had also never heard of matsutake as gifts, and she pointed out that the harvest time of matsutake doesn't coincide with any gift-giving holiday. In Iwate, which produces the highest-quality matsutake, they are either consumed locally or sent to the top restaurants and inns in Tokyo and Kyoto. My family only buys them to eat them.I contacted ALT about this point, and she very graciously and forthrightly explained that she was most familiar with Kyoto, and that very possibly what she described applies mainly there. Among Japan's 47 prefectures, Kyoto is in 9th rank as a producer of matsutake -- but its output is only around 1% of Iwate's. So it's hardly representative. (BTW the book refers to Kyoto as "central" Japan, which is how it might appear to an outsider who looks at a map, but the Japanese name for the region, Kansai, clearly labels it as "west.") She also mentioned that some expat Japanese families send American matsutake back to relatives in the Kyushu region, though this doesn't relate to Japanese production. Nor is it necessarily anything special: we send Iwate cabbages, cucumbers, and negi (Japanese leeks) as well as matsutake to friends and family in Tokyo, simply because they're cheaper and fresher where we live.Even in Kyoto and possibly other locales, do gift-givers make presents of matsutake harvested in North American, Finnish and Chinese forests and exported to Japan? From the sequence of chapters and particularly the discussion of intermediate wholesalers in the chapter entitled "From Gifts to Commodities -- and Back" (Ch. 9), you might get the impression that they do, even though ALT doesn't say this explicitly. But that's not at all the case: by the time foreign matsutake arrive in Japan they're too dry to be suitable as gifts. Yet well over 95% of Japanese matsutake consumption is imports, which thanks to their dryness are also much cheaper than domestically-harvested ones. Unfortunately, the book omits to mention the main destination of those fungi: the processed foods industry. They're sometimes sold sliced in cans or other packaging, and freeze-dried matsutake rice mixes are a popular item, as are bowls of matsutake-flavored instant ramen. Again, ALT was gracious in acknowledging this point, and mentioned that a related discussion seems to have been cut from her manuscript during the editing process.One other somewhat nebulous suggestion in the text is that matsutake grow mainly in forests disturbed by aggressive logging or other human exploitation. That may be true in North America and in some parts of Kyoto, but not at all in Iwate, Nagano or other high-production areas. In those regions, matsutake are harvested from what ALT calls "peasant forests," namely mountain forests that have been subject to a certain amount of maintenance by humans, such as having their undergrowth and debris periodically thinned, an activity known in Japan as satoyama. Although they are mentioned in the book, these forests are much less salient in the narrative than are the "capitalist ruins" of the book's subtitle.While I very much appreciated ALT's kind and forthcoming responses to my questions, the book's lack of accuracy or clarity on these points does somewhat blunt its most pointed and ironic commentary on capitalism, to the extent that commentary is meant to apply to Japan. But there is still plenty of value in the book. ALT's ironies are still justified by the ethnographic chapters, and the chapters that talk more about mushroom biology also get one to think critically about industrialized agriculture, with its emphasis on monoculture. All in all, a very imaginative approach to real-life economics, and one that pulls the rug, or forest floor, out from under some usual textbook concepts.

Many of us who study human/plant relationships have been waiting eagerly for this book, and I at least am not disappointed. Anna Tsing is a fine writer, a superb ethnographer, and an insightful and original thinker, and this long and detailed book shows off her skills perfectly. It's a worldwide survey of gathering, trading, and selling matsutake mushrooms, the gourmet mushrooms that currently run over $50 a pound in markets. They are prestigious in Japan, and necessary or nearly so for high-end gifts, and the world has caught on. The most interesting ethnography herein is of the matsutake pickers in Oregon--a mixed lot of southeast Asian hill people, Latin American migrants, and Anglo-Americans who want to live far out in the woods--many of them Vietnam vets. Tsing takes us also to Japan, Finland, and Yunnan (southwest China).In addition to the ethnography, Tsing is thoroughly grounded in the science of mushrooms. In dramatic contrast to those political ecologists and critical thinkers who make it a point of pride not to know any science, Tsing not only knows it but is sharply insightful into what really matters, and shows her usual skill at telling the reader. She starts with basics but goes into some real detail, e.g. on matsutake taxonomy.The take-home messages of the book include a focus on assemblages--transient or long-term linkages of people, environments, plants, and policies--and on ruined landscapes. In Oregon, matsutakes grow in overcut, undermanaged conifer land that went to lodgepole pine (on whose roots they grow as symbionts). In Japan, similar mismanagement long ago led to matsutake forests, but now those forests are what is wanted, and management is trying to restore them from overgrowth. In China, mismanagement is threatening forests in general. But from the ruins come new assemblages, which will support new lifeways.All this comes at the end of capitalist expansion and "progress," if not of the whole world.The book is something of a breathless speed-travel, but you can find full details about much of the stories in her other writings, and especially in articles and forthcoming works by her collaborators, especially Michael Hathaway.My main complaint is about the startoff. The very first page (vii) tells the old story about western philosophy seeing Nature as just a mechanical, passive backdrop, and says "The time has come for new ways of telling true stories beyond civilizational first principles" of that sort. This is mildly annoying to those of us who have been doing exactly that for 50 years. It rather elides the whole tradition from Thoreau and Emerson through Burroughs and Muir and Leopold and down to Bill McKibben and Gary Snyder. The arrogant nature-as-stuff-to-waste paradigm created its own backlash long ago.A minor point. More important is that capitalism and socialism may both come to an end as resources run out, so Tsing's book is timely and valuable; more to the point, it will be a classic.

A beautifully written, smart, absorbing book that is also profoundly moving

This book is really thought provoking. Anna is careful and generous, and she touches on subjects in a way that is wholly descriptive (vs prescriptive condemnation or celebration of any particular practice). I learned a lot and would recommend it to absolutely anyone.

Tsing attempts to create a philosophical platform to rationalize current environmental issues all from the perspective of matsutake hunting. An interesting approach that falls short in all aspects and fails to leave a lasting impact due to overly complicated philosophical metaphors and difficult to understand writing.

A beautiful and successful blending of science and philosophy. The dialectic at work in the hidden commons that evade privatization.

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Ian Shaw studied Archaeology and Egyptology at Cambridge University, gaining a PhD on the archaeological remains at Tell el-Amarna. He later undertook research into Egyptian quarrying and mining sites as a British Academy Research Fellow at New Hall, Cambridge. His other publications include Ancient Egyptian Warfare and Weapons (1992), The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (1995), The Dictionary of Archaeology (1999), and Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (2000)

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Paperback: 552 pages

Publisher: Oxford University Press; New Ed edition (February 19, 2004)

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The _Oxford History of Ancient Egypt_ is really a compilation of essays on the various periods of Ancient Egyptian history from the paleolithic through the Roman conquest. Initially I was off-put by this, but I quickly recognized the strength of this sort of approach. simply put, each section is written by an expert on that particular period of time, giving readers access to the considerable expertise and fluency with the subject matter that simply outweighs what any single scholar could provide on the area.I found the chapters on the Naqada Period (ca. 4000 - 3200 BCE) by Beatrix Midant-Reynes, the First Intermediate Period by Stephen Seidlmeyer and the Second Intermediate Period by Jamie Bourrian to be particularly well-done. The depth, detail and clarity with which these scholars write is exceptional.The _Oxford History of Ancient Egypt_ is the best single volume on the region's history I have read. I give it my highest recommendations for anyone interested in the area and time period - the scholarly detail and accessibility of language is unparalleled.

Over all I would say this is a foundation for understanding the time period and I absolutely loved it.It does however suffer from a narrow focus. If you like to see the ongoing development of politics and religion as expressed through graves and monuments you will be in heaven. If you view history as more of a narrative about people's lives and interactions beyond the elite classes you will be disappointed. I would suggest that this is a MUST read but not an ONLY read to understand the time period.

The information is fine, but this book lacks flow and consistency of topics covered. It reads more like a collection of essays (one for each time period). Editors could have done more to promote a similar focus among the time periods (like focusing on economic or social or religious conditions or archaeological findings from each period). Instead, each chapter reads like it's own essay with it's own focus. This leads to an aggravated style where some chapters read well and cover interesting material, while others are hard to get through. Moreover, the chapters have little connection and flow between them. Where there is overlap, it seems rather unintentional and comes off as one chapter stepping on the toes of the prior chapter.

Wonderful book, well written and organized. It brings history and archaeology together in a great format and the time periods are written by individuals who are well knowledged on the subject. This is the first book on the subject that I find totally engrossing!

Bought this for my 6th graders Egyptology assignment in History. I was very impressed with how thorough this book was and also how many pharaohs they had information on. My 6th grader had a pharaoh that was hard to find information on... this had a lot of info and explained the history and life of the pharaoh very well.

I was disappointed in how much actual history was left out. Page after page about pot shards and burial customs but damn little about who did what in some sections. The chapter on Roman Egypt was particularly poor. Once Cleopatra & Octavian were covered, the next 300+ years were all but ignored. The spread of the religion of Isis & Serapis throughout the empire & the mass murder of pagan worshippers & the final destruction of the great temple of Serapis in Alexandria by Christian mobs which is the true end for ancient Egyptian history should have been covered. Perhaps even the Byzantine ear leading up to the Arab conquest could have gotten at least a glance. Not a bad book, but certainly not the best one volume history of ancient Egypt either.

This book is a collection of essays by various authors, and the quality of them varies tremendously from chapter to chapter. While it covers all of Egyptian history from prehistoric times to the Roman era, this book is not a particularly good introduction. Here's a typical sentence from the first chapter: "The Nubian Middle Paleolithic is characterized by the Nubian Levallois technique and by bifacial foliates and pendunculates." If you know what the Levallois technique and pendunculates are, great. If, like me, you have no idea what this means, you have a problem because there is a maddening lack of definition throughout. For me, the book's major drawback is that it fails to balance the larger picutre of historical development with this kind of astonishingly particular language. The main problem is that the editor has not sought any consistency among the various contributions. For example, the chapter on the Ptolemeic period spends an inordinate amount of time examinging the Egyptian military, a topic only fleetingly touched on in earlier chapters and ignored completely in the following chapter on the Roman period. The final Roman essay almost completely ignores the political structure of Egypt, even though that topic is central to almost all earlier contributors. Finally, anyone interested in Egyptian religion will find little information in this book. Some chapters touch on the topic, often pointing out that religious ideas evolved significantly over long periods of time. Other chapters ignore it altogether or merely present religious ideas as if the reader fully understood them. There is, however, an excellent array of maps and high quality pictures of art and architecture.

Well written scholarly approach to the subject. To get a full picture you need to read several books on the topic and there have been some recent developments that might change some of the author's previously written conclusions. I liked it.

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