Brilliant book that was interesting and a fascinating read. One usually only reads books on archaeology, rarely about the subject and this is a great means of finding out about the profession.
Mr Ford seems to have had a interesting career to this point and I love his tales of the early years, where he seems to stumble about and be a success.
Favourite tale is definitely the funeral of a colleague, in Jordan who had a camel drop dead before the ceremony. I was in fits of laughter imaging the scene.

This is a career memoir of an archaeologist; part history of the world, part personal account of his different digs. I really, really enjoyed most of this book -- especially the recounts about his times in the Middle East; really interesting and laugh out loud funny. Some locations and more modern historical sites I didn't love as much, but that's entirely due to my apparently quite specific interests in history.