Philip Duke

Philip Duke is a native of Liverpool, England. After receiving a degree in archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 1976 he took a doctorate at the University of Calgary. In 1980 he moved to the United States and taught at Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1990. His initial research interests were in North American archaeology. Later Philip returned to the first intellectual love of his life, Greek archaeology. He led college groups on archaeological tours of Grece and published a book ("The Tourists Gaze. The Cretans Glance," available on Amazon) and several articles on the relationship between archaeology and the Greek tourism industry. On retiring from Fort Lewis in 2009 he and his wife lived on the island of Crete for five years. It was during this stay that he developed his two novels "A Terrible Unrest" and "The Village. A Novel of Wartime Crete," both of which have strong Cretan connections.They now live just outside Durango with their two rescue dogs, Lexi and Missy.P. Philip hasd just completed his third novel, "I AM MARIA. A WOMAN'S JOURNEY THOUGH WAR."