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Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East(7 Durham Middle East Monographs S.)

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Egypt and the Near East have enchanted many people over the centuries. Travellers from the West have journeyed to this region for a variety of motives: in pursuit of knowledge, power, diplomacy and trade, for pleasure and adventure, on pilgrimage, and to plunder and discover the exotic - or sometimes simply to discover themselves. Some have been influenced more than others by what they saw; bringing back tangible evidence of their visits, in the form of antiquities or other collectors' items; others have used their observations and experiences for their own literary and artistic ends. This collection of papers has its origin in the conference "Travellers to Egypt and the Near East" held at St Catherine's College, Oxford in July 1997. They are arranged approximately in chronological order - though with so many common themes running through them, a strict sequence according to a single criterion has proved almost impossible. In addition to the chronological sequence, the reader will detect a number of common themes - religion, gender, economics, colonialism, perceptions of literature and art and so forth that haunt the essays and form webs of interconnection between them. The papers included in this volume range from those on Mary Wortley Montagu and James Silk Buckingham to the grand tour phenomenon and the ruins of Sardis. These essays provide an array of perspectives on a set of historical, literary and cultural relationships about which debate is certain to continue well into the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents:
A Textual Landscape - The Mapping of a Holy Land in the Fourth-Century; Itinerarium of the Bordeaux Pilgrim; The Grand Tour in the Ottoman Empire, 1699-1826; Dressing Native; English Pleasure Travel in the Near East, 1580-1645; Egypt in 1615-1616 as seen through the Eyes of the Armenian Simeon of Poland; Adam Olearius's Travels to Persia, 1633-1639; The British in Oman since 1645; Ruins and Landscapes from Sardis to Stowe - The Work of Giovanni Battista Borra; Ottoman Women through the Eyes of Mary Wortley Montagu; James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) - An Anecdotal Traveller; Lord Belmore proceeds up the Nile in 1817-1818; From Cairo to Petra - Lon de Laborde and L.M.A. Linant de Bellefonds, 1828; James Burton and Slave Girls; The Reverend Joliffe's Advice to Travellers; Italian Travellers in Egypt; Nile Notes of a Howadji - American Travellers in Egypt, 1837-1903 Romances and Realities of Travellers.

About the Author :
Paul Starkey studied Arabic and Persian at Oxford and now teaches at the University of Durham. He is the author of From the Ivory Tower: A Critical Study of Tawfiq al-Hakim (1987) and co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Arabic Literature (1988). Janet Starkey studied social anthropology in Edinburgh and London and now teaches material culture at the University of Durham. She has worked extensively in the museum field, and is particularly interested in the ethnography of Egypt and Sudan.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780863722578
  • Publisher: Garnet Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Ithaca Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East
  • ISBN-10: 0863722571
  • Publisher Date: 10 Apr 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: 7 Durham Middle East Monographs S.
  • Width: 190 mm


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