W.M. Flinders Petrie 
Seventy Years In Archaeology [PDF ebook] 
A Father in Egyptology

First published in 2005. The working and intellectual biography of the great archaeologist Flinders Petrie, who was one of the founding fathers of Egyptology, will inevitably be of interest to all those involved with ancient Egypt. Here we have accounts of the research, the observations and the writing of some of the most important work conducted in Egyptology.