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Title Travellers in Egypt / edited by Paul Starkey and Janet Starkey
Publication Info London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 1998
Location Call Number Status
 Egyptian Art  DT49.98 .T73 1998    REQUESTABLE
 Offsite  913.2 T69    REQUESTABLE
Description 318 p. ; 24 cm
Contents Preface / John Ruffle -- 1. Introduction / Paul Starkey and Janet Starkey -- 2. European Travellers in Egypt: The Representation of the Host Culture / Hussein M. Fahim -- 3. Pietro Della Valle in Ottoman Egypt, 1615-1616 / Peter M. Holt -- 4. George Baldwin: Soldier of Fortune? / Rosemarie Said Zahlan -- 5. A Pioneer Egyptologist: Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, 1778-1823 / Peter A. Clayton -- 6. William John Bankes' Collection of Drawings of Egypt and Nubia / Patricia Usick -- 7. Linant de Bellefonds: Travels in Egypt, Sudan and Arabia Petraea, 1818-1828 / Marcel Kurz and Pascale Linant de Bellefonds -- 8. A Prussian Expedition in 1820: Heinrich von Minutoli / Joachim S. Karig -- 9. The Journeys of Lord Prudhoe and Major Orlando Felix in Egypt, Nubia and the Levant, 1826-1829 / John Ruffle -- 10. The Forgotten Egyptologist: James Burton / Neil Cooke -- 11. Two Brides: Baroness Menu von Minutoli and Mrs. Colonel Elwood / Deborah Manley -- 12. A Honeymoon in Egypt and the Sudan: Charlotte Rowley, 1835-1836 / Peter Rowley-Conwy et al. -- 13. The Unknown Nestor L'Hote / Diane Sarofim Harle -- 14. Between Two Lost Worlds: Frederick Catherwood / Jason Thompson and Angela T. Thompson -- 15. A Naval Tourist, 1834-1840: Captain Henry Byam Martin / Sarah Searight -- 16. Two Interpretations of Islamic Domestic Interiors in Cairo: J.F. Lewis and Frank Dillon / Briony Llewellyn -- 17. Travellers, Colonisers and Conservationists / Hossam M. Mahdy -- 18. A Nineteenth-Century Photographer: Francis Frith / Caroline Williams -- 19. Alexandre Dumas in Egypt: Mystification or Truth? / Marianna Taymanova -- 20. Flaubert's Egypt: Crucible and Crux for Textual Identity / Mary Orr -- 21. Egypt Imagined, Egypt Visited: Theophile Gautier / Peter Whyte -- 22. Juliusz Slowacki in Egypt 1836-37 / Jan Weryho -- 23. French Women Travellers: A Discourse Marginal to Orientalism? / John David Ragan -- 24. Edward Said and Edward William Lane / John Rodenbeck -- 25. Texts from Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Role of E.W. Lane / Geoffrey Roper -- 26. Travellers' Rendezvous and Cultural Institutions in Muhammad 'Ali's Egypt / Philip Sadgrove -- 27. Views of al-Azhar in the Nineteenth Century: Gabriel Charmes and 'Ali Pasha Mubarak / Michael J. Reimer -- 28. Egyptian Travellers in Europe / Paul Starkey
Notes " ... essays first presented at a conference on Travellers to Egypt held in Durham in July 1995"--P. 1
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-303) and index
Subjects Travelers -- Egypt -- History
Travelers' writings, European -- History and criticism
Egypt -- Description and travel.
Egypt -- Foreign public opinion -- History
Additional Authors Starkey, Paul, 1947-
Starkey, Janet, 1948-
Other Edition Online version: Travellers in Egypt. (OCoLC)1036900239
ISBN 1860643248
OCLC 40070041