Travellers in the Levant :  voyagers and visionaries / 
 Travelers in the Levant :  voyagers and visionaries 
edited by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff. 
 - Durham [England] :  ASTENE,  2001. 
 - xiv, 233 p. :  ill., maps, ports. ;  24 cm. 
 - ASTENE publications ;  2 .
 - Astene publications ;  2. .
<br/><br/> Contains papers developed from the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East's 1999 Cambridge conference. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface / Paul Starkey -- Introduction / Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff -- Colonel Leake : traveller and scholar / Malcolm Wagstaff -- William Martin Leake and the Greek revival / Hugh Ferguson -- Leake in Kythera / Davina Huxley -- Straddling the Aegean : William Gell 1811-1813 / Charles Plouviez -- The anger of Lady Hester Stanhope : some letters of Lady Hester, John Lewis Burckhardt and William John Bankes / Norman N. Lewis -- Jacob Jonas Bjornstahl and his travels in Thessaly / Berit Wells -- Levels of contact between east and west : pilgrims and visitors to Jerusalem and Constantinople from the ninth to the twelfth centuries / Peter Frankopan -- Muslim travellers to Bilad al-Sham (Syria and Palestine) from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries : Maghribi travel accounts / Yehoshu'a Frenkel -- Italian travellers to the Levant : retracing the Bible in a world of Muslim and Jews, 1815-1914 / Barbara Codacci -- The norths in Syria, Egypt and Palestine, 1865-1866 / Brenda Moon -- The pilgrimage to budding tourism : the role of Thomas Cook in the rediscovery of the Holy Land / Ruth Kark -- J. F. Lewis 1805-1876 : mythology as biography / Emily Weeks -- Edward Lear's travels to the Holy Land : visits to Mount Sinai, Petra and Jerusalem / Hisham Khatib -- 'Oriental novellas' in the works of Gerard de Nerval / Marianna Taymanova. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0953970019 9780953970018 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA1-43451 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Middle East--Description and travel--Congresses.<br/>Middle East--History--19th century--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History<br/>Cambridge (1999)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS44.98  / .T73 2001 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>915.60409034