I Brought the Ages Home is the intriguing story of how a boy born in southwestern Ontario and trained for the ministry became one of Canada's great archaeological pioneers and museum-builders-nothing less than a homegrown Indiana Jones.
Described by scholar Dennis Duffy as the Royal Ontario Museum's own "Genesis narrative," I Brought the Ages Home is a lively, adventure-packed memoir that traces Currelly's life from his childhood in Exeter, Ontario, to Victoria College in Toronto, and on to Egypt, Crete, and Asia Minor, where he
established his reputation as one of the era's most energetic and passionate collectors of antiquities. Later chapters describe Currelly's work as the first director of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology and how he "brought the ages home" to the corner of Bloor Street and Queen's Park in
Toronto. General readers and students of archaeology and museology alike will treasure this behind-the-scenes account of the making of one of Canada's great cultural institutions.
This new edition includes a special afterword by Dennis Duffy of the University of Toronto that sets Currelly's autobiography in a modern context, as well as the original introduction by Northrop Frye. The result is a book that is at once an engaging autobiography and unique insider's perspective
on the formative years of a cultural cornerstone that, with its recent renovations, is once again the focus of national attention.
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 930.1092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Includes index Published as part of a series of books in the Wynford Project Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780195428940 9780195434811
- LCCN
- CC115.C6
- LCCN Item number
- A3 2008eb
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- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xiv, 340 p. :)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00223338 (OCoLC)753336434 (CaOOCEL)432127
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- PART ONE: APPRENTICESHIP 20
- Editor's Introduction 12
- CHAPTER 1. EXETER BOY 22
- CHAPTER 2. MANITOBA MISSIONARY 33
- CHAPTER 3. MEETING WITH PETRIE 50
- PART TWO: PREPARATION 64
- CHAPTER 4. EGYPT 66
- CHAPTER 5. CRETE 81
- CHAPTER 6. EGYPT AGAIN 89
- CHAPTER 7. PALESTINE 109
- CHAPTER 8. ON THE TRACK OF MOSES 122
- CHAPTER 9. DESERT JOURNEY 139
- CHAPTER 10. MUSEUM FOR THE UNIVERSITY 150
- CHAPTER 11. TREASURES OF EGYPT 161
- PART THREE: NEARING THE GOAL 182
- CHAPTER 12. GAINING EXPERIENCE 184
- CHAPTER 13. LONDON 204
- CHAPTER 14. DAMASCUS 215
- CHAPTER 15. THE MUSEUM TAKES SHAPE 220
- CHAPTER 16. SOUTHWEST AND NORTHWEST 230
- CHAPTER 17. WAR AND PEACE 243
- PART FOUR: ACHIEVEMENT 254
- CHAPTER 18. THE MEDITERRANEAN 256
- CHAPTER 19. THE ORIENT 270
- CHAPTER 20. THE EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS 288
- CHAPTER 21. ILLUSTRATING BRITISH HISTORY 304
- CHAPTER 22. CANADA 319
- Afterword 336
- Index 352
- A 352
- B 352
- C 353
- D 353
- E 354
- F 354
- G 354
- H 355
- I 355
- J 355
- K 355
- L 355
- M 356
- N 356
- O 356
- P 356
- Q 357
- R 357
- S 357
- T 358
- U 358
- V 358
- W 359
- Y 359
- Z 359