Hi All,

Last evening I had the chance to read through Noel Hume's newly released autobiography titled: 

A Passion for the Past: The Odyssey of a Transatlantic Archaeologist.  

The book is published by The University of Virginia Press and is available on Amazon.com at a discount.

It is a wonderful read from one of the true pioneers in the field of historical archaeology and the progenitor of so many successful careers.  As with all of Noel's works, the prose is entertaining, informative, and inspirational. 

From the Amazon website:

"Noël Hume is a household name. This book should be a professional classic, to be read alongside other memoirs like those of Graham Clark, Glyn Daniel, Gertrude Caton-Thompson, and Mortimer Wheeler. The childhood narrative is an astonishing memoir of loneliness written without a trace of self-pity. The book goes on to reveal how Noël Hume and his wife Audrey helped create the colonial heritage of Virginia with their judicious blending of solid archaeology and Anglo-American diplomacy." -- Carmel Schrire, Rutgers University, author of Digging through Darkness: Chronicles of an Archaeologist.