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American travelers on the Nile : early US visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839

Andrew Oliver (Author)
The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers.--Publisher's description
Print Book, English, 2014
I.B. Tauris, London, 2014
History
412 pages, 20 un pages of plates and facsimiles ; 24 cm
9789774166679, 9774166671
894277271
Americans in Eighteenth-Century Egypt
Ward Nicholas Boylston
John Ledyard
European Travelers of This Period and Their Accounts
Boylston in London and His Return to Boston
Napoleon and the French Savants in Egypt
Mehmet Ali and His New Egypt
Francis Barthow
The American Navy and Trade in the Mediterranean
The Barbary Pirates and the American Navy
Merchants in Smyrna and Constantinople
American Merchants in Yemen
Alexandria
Tourists Only as Far as Sicily
Tourists in Greece and Turkey before 1820
The War of 1812
The European Presence in Egypt from 1815 to 1825
European Diplomats
Europeans Working for the Pasha's Enterprises
European Merchants
European Collectors and Researchers
The British Passage to and from India
Tourists
Americans Return to Egypt
A Gentleman of Boston
The Alligator Episode
Cleopatra's Barge
George B. English, Luther Bradish, and George Rapleje
Egyptian Mummies
American Missionaries on Tour
Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons: Mission Postponed in Search of Health
The Reverend Eli Smith in Egypt in 1826
The Eastern Question
Americans and the Greek War of Independence
The Greek Boy
American Diplomacy
Greece, Egypt, the Sublime Forte, and the European Powers
American Shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 1820s
The Lure of Egypt
Egyptian Revival and the Description de lÉgypte
Henry Oliver
Cornelius Bradford
Allen, Oakley, and Ferguson
The Obelisk from Luxor to Paris
Mendes Israel Cohen
John Gliddon, United States Consular Agent
John Warren
Americans Who Almost Went to Egypt
Champollion and Pariset in Egypt
The US Naval Squadron: Egyptian Curios and Civilian Passengers
The United States Squadron in the Mediterranean
The First Encounter of the Squadron and Egypt
The Warren, Charles W. Skinner, in 1829
The Concord, Matthew C. Perry, and the Kirklands in 1832
The Delaware and Daniel T. Patterson in 1834
The Constitution, the United Stales, the John Adams, and the Shark in 1836
The Constitution, Jesse D. Elliott, the Hon. Lewis Cass, and Henry Ledyard in 1837
Keepers of Diaries: 1833 to 1835
Eli and Sarah Smith
John W. Hamersley
J. Lewis Stackpole and Ralph Stead Izard, Jun
William B. Hodgson
Rush and Rittenhouse Nutt
John Lowell
Two Brigs from Boston Reach Alexandria
Traveling in Egypt
Travel in Europe
Passports and Letters of Introduction
Guidebooks
Funds
Hotels
Dress
Food
Guides and Security
Health
John L. Stephens and Fellow Tourists of the Mid-1830S
John L. Stephens
The Haights and the Allens
"Mr. Dorr and Mr. Curtis"
James McHenry Boyd
A New Yorker in 1837
Henry McVickar and John Bard
Steamship Travel
Professional Visitors
Rev. Edward Robinson, Biblical Archaeologist
Dr. Valentine Mott, Surgeon
Valentine Mott's Arabic Manuscript
Henry P. Marshall, US Consul to Muscat
Mills, Giraffes, and Skulls (And Even the Telegraph)
Giraffes: From Sudan to Broadway
Morse's Telegraph: From Paris to the Pasha
Shall We Meet in Egypt?
Aaron Smith Willington, Publisher of the Charleston Courier
"Mr. L. and Miss H."
Simeon Howard Calhoun, Native of Boston
A Nameless American Tourist in May
Philip Rhinelander and his Friends
Rhinelander and His Friends on the Nile
"Dreadful Accident on the Danube"
Rhinelander and His Friends Leave for Vienna
After 1839