Patrick Richard Carstens

Patrick Richard Carstens was born in Woodstock, South Africa and raised and educated in Canada. He is semi-retired with a military and engineering background and with training in the field of archaeology. He has worked in the Egyptian Delta, Sinai Peninsula, and Luxor with a number of archaeological teams and has been a frequent visitor to Egypt since 1982. As a historian with an interest in both ancient and modern history. Patrick has written The Carstens Family in South Africa (University of Toronto Press, 1988), co-authored with Timothy L. Sanford, Searching for the Forgotten War 1812: Volume 1 Canada, and Volume 2 United States of America (Bloomington Indiana: Xlibris 2011), and The Republic of Canada Almost (Bloomington Indiana: Xlibris 2013. Patick as also written Port Nolloth: The Making of a South African Seaport (Bloomington Indiana: Xlibris 20110 and The Encyclopedia of Egypt During the Reign of Mehemet Ali Dynasty 1798-1982 (Friesen Press 2014)