Cirrus@Austlit

'Love's Obsession is a well-written and fascinating account of the lives and work of Australian archaeologists, James ('Jim') Rivers Barrington Stewart and his wife, Dorothy Evelyn ('Eve'), nee Dray. Professor Jim Stewart was Australia's first lecturer in archaeology at the University of Sydney, a collector of Near Eastern artefacts and numismatist, and descendent of a pioneering grazier family near Bathurst. He was also the first Australian to direct archaeological excavations outside Australia, undertaking fieldwork principally in Cyprus from the 1930s to 1960s. ' (Introduction)