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A review by shanaqui
Petra: The Rose-Red City by Christian Auge, Jean-Marie Dentzer
informative
medium-paced
3.0
Before reading this, I knew very little about Petra -- I'd seen a few images of it, knew roughly where it was, etc, but I didn't know anything about the Nabateans and their lives in their city. Christian Auge and Jean-Marie Dentzer's Petra: The Rose-Red City is a pretty slim volume, but richly illustrated, and carefully contextualises the images in terms of what we know.
Which is less than I expected, to be honest. Not much archaeological work had been completed in and around Petra relative to the size of the ruins at around the time of writing, and preservation work had barely begun, if at all. I'd love to find something more up-to-date about Petra, but it was fascinating to get this glimpse.
That said, sometimes the organisation of text, images and captions left something to be desired. The pages are very busy, and the flow is unintuitive sometimes.
Which is less than I expected, to be honest. Not much archaeological work had been completed in and around Petra relative to the size of the ruins at around the time of writing, and preservation work had barely begun, if at all. I'd love to find something more up-to-date about Petra, but it was fascinating to get this glimpse.
That said, sometimes the organisation of text, images and captions left something to be desired. The pages are very busy, and the flow is unintuitive sometimes.