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Author:   Neil Cooke
Publisher:   Archaeopress
Imprint:   Archaeopress
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9781789692402

ISBN 10:   1789692407
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   30 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction - by Neil Cooke 1: Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela: a 12th-Century Traveller to the Middle East - by Paul Starkey 2: George Husz from Rascinia in Slavonia: a Croatian traveller and his voyage around the Orient between 1532 and 1541 - by Mladen Tomorad 3: Samuel Atkins: His diary or journal for the years 1680-88 - by Hakan Yazar 4: More treasure hunting in Qurna – the ‘Amr Mosque - by Caroline Simpson 5: Soldiering in Egypt - by Sarah Shepherd 6: The French House in Luxor: Living on top of a temple - by Hélène Virenque and Sylvie Weens 7: The notorious Emil Brugsch: ‘It is said that Brugsch Bey would sell the whole museum.’ - by Heicke Schmidt 8: From Rags to Riches: the adventures of Victor Gustave Maunier in Egypt 1848-1868 - by Sylvie Weens 9: “Let’s have a beer at Gorff’s!” - by Isolde Lehnert 10: A suffragist in Palestine: Millicent Fawcett’s journeys in the 1920s - by Lucy Pollard 11: Anton Prokesch von Osten and his contribution to evolving Egyptology - by Ernst Czerny 12: What the ‘Noble Traveller’ got up to in Thebes: Lord Belmore’s ‘Herculean undertaking’ in TT 148 - by Boyo G. Ockinga 13: Americans on the river Nile in the 1874-1875 Season - by Andrew Oliver 14: Sources of inspiration: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour and other artist-travellers in Ottoman Lands - by Janet Starkey 15: In the wake of a rake: Artist Francis Smith and the 6th Baron Baltimore - by Brian J. Taylor 16: Everything I Want People to Know is in my Books: Leo Tregenza’s Journeys in the Eastern Desert - by Ronald E. Zitterkopf 17: The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) Expedition to Moab in 1872 – Ginsburg and Tristram: an old academic quarrel? - by David Kennedy 18: ‘Nothing great can be achieved except in the Orient’ said Napoleon Bonaparte - by Heba Sheta Index

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