Title & Author:

Travellers in Egypt / edited by Paul Starkey and Janet Starkey.

Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 1998.

Description:

318 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
" ... essays first presented at a conference on Travellers to Egypt held in Durham in July 1995"--Page 1.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-303) and index.
Introduction / Paul and Janet Starkey -- European travellers in Egypt: the representation of the host culture / Hussein M. Fahim -- Pietro Della Valle in Ottoman Egypt, 1615-1616 / Peter M. Holt -- George Baldwin: soldier of fortune? / Rosemarie Said Zahlan -- A pioneer Egyptologist: Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, 1778-1823 / Peter A. Clayton -- William John Bankes' collection of drawings of Egypt and Nubia / Patricia Usick -- Linant de Bellefonds: travels in Egypt, Sudan and Arabia Petraea, 1818-1828 / Marcel Kurz and Pascale Linant de Bellefonds -- A Prussian expedition in 1820: Heinrich von Minutoli / Joachim S. Karig -- The journeys of Lord Prudhoe and Major Orlando Felix in Egypt, Nubia and the Levant, 1826-1829 / John Ruffle -- The forgotten Egyptologist: James Burton / Neil Cooke -- Two brides: Baroness Menu von Minutoli and Mrs. Colonel Elwood / Deborah Manley -- A honeymoon in Egypt and the Sudan: Charlotte Rowley, 1835-1836 / Peter Rowley-Conwy et al -- The unknown Nestor L'Hote / Diane Sarofim Harle -- Between two lost worlds: Frederick Catherwood / Jason and Angela T. Thompson -- A naval tourist, 1834-1840: Captain Henry Byam Martin / Sarah Searight -- Two interpretations of Islamic domestic interiors in Cairo: J.F. Lewis and Frank Dillon / Briony Llewellyn -- Travellers, colonisers and conservationists / Hossam M. Mahdy -- A nineteenth-century photographer: Francis Frith / Caroline Williams -- Alexandre Dumas in Egypt: mystification or truth? / Marianna Taymanova -- Flaubert's Egypt: crucible and crux for textual identity / Mary Orr -- Egypt imagined, Egypt visited: Theophile Gautier / Peter Whyte -- Julius Slowacki in Egypt 1836-37 / Jan Weryho -- French women travellers: a discourse marginal to Orientalism? / John David Ragan -- Edward Said and Edward William Lane / John Rodenbeck -- Texts from nineteenth-century Egypt: the role of E.W. Lane / Geoffrey Roper -- Travellers' rendezvous and cultural institutions in Muhammad 'Ali's Egypt / Philip Sadgrove -- Views of al-Azhar in the nineteenth century: Gabriel Charmes and 'Ali Pasha Mubarak / Michael J. Reimer -- Egyptian travellers in Europe / Paul Starkey.

Summary:

For readers interested in Western perceptions of the Orient; in the contribution made by travellers to Egyptology; the study of Egyptian society; or in the history & culture of European travel in the Middle East, this collection has much to offer.

ISBN:

1860643248
9781860643248

Subject:

Travelers Egypt Congresses.
Travelers' writings, European History and criticism Congresses.
Voyageurs Égypte Congrès.
Écrits de voyageurs européens Histoire et critique Congrès.
Travel.
Travelers.
Travelers' writings, European.
Reisender
Geschichte
Kongress
Reizigers.
Beeldvorming.
Voyageurs Égypte Histoire Congrès.
Egypt Description and travel Congresses.
Égypte Descriptions et voyages Congrès.
Egypt.
Ägypten

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Starkey, Paul, 1947-
Starkey, Janet, 1948-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 202285
Call No.: DT49.98 .T7 1998
Status: Available