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Travellers in Egypt

A study of travellers in Egypt which is aimed at readers interested in Western perceptions of the Orient; in the contribution made by early travellers to Egyptology; in the study of Egyptian society and its cultural heritage; or in the history and culture of European travel in the Middle East.
Print Book, English, 2001
Tauris Parke, London, 2001
ix, 318 pages ; 20 cm
9781860646744, 1860646743
1008240620
European travellers in Egypt - the representation of the host culture, Hussein M. Fahim. Part 1 Early travellers: Pietro Della Valle in Ottoman Egypt, 1615-1616, Peter M. Holt; George Baldwin - soldier of fortune? Rosemarie Said Zahlan. Part 2 Egyptological travellers: a pioneer Egyptologist - Giovanni Baptista Belzoni,1778-1823, Peter A. Clayton; William John Bankes' collection of drwoings of Egypt an Nubia, Patricia Usick; Linant de Bellfonds - travels in Egypt, Sudan and Arabia Petraea, 1818-1828, Marcel Kurz, 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. Part 3 Women in Egypt: 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. Part 4 Artists and photographers: the unknown Nestor L'Hote, Diane Sarofim Harle; between two lost worlds -Frederick Catherwood, Jason Thompson, Angela T. Thompson; a naval tourist, 1834-1840 - Captain Henry Byam Martin, Sarah Searight; two interpretations of Islamic domestic interiors in Cairo - J.F. Lewism Frank Dillon, Briony Llewellyn; travellers, colonisers and conservationists, Hossam M. Mahdy; a 19th century photographer -Francis Frith, Caroline Williams, Part 5 Literary interactions -Egyptian influence on European literature: Alexandre Dumas in Egypt -mystification or truth? Marianna Taymanova; Faluber's Egypt - crucible and crux for textual identity, Mary Orr; Egypt imagined, Egypt visited - Theophile Gautier, Peter Whyte; Juliusz Slowacki in Egypt 1836-37, Jan Weryho; French women travellers - a discourse marginal to orientalism? John David Ragan. Part 6 E.W. Lane and scholarly perceptions: Edward Said and Edward William Lane, John Rodenbeck; text from 19th century Egypt - the role of E.W. Lane, Geoffrey Roper. Part 7 European influences on Egypt: travellers' rendezvous and cultural institutions in Muhammad Ali's Egypt, Philip Sadgrove; views of al-Azhar in the 19th century - Gabriel Charmes and Ali Pasha Mubarak, Michael J. Reiner; Egyptian travellers in Europe, Paul Starkey.
Originally published: London : I.B. Tauris, 1998
Papers from a conference held at the Oriental Museum, Durham, July 1995