TY - BOOK AU - Searight,Sarah AU - Wagstaff,J.Malcolm ED - Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East. TI - Travellers in the Levant: voyagers and visionaries T2 - ASTENE publications SN - 0953970019 AV - DS44.98 .T73 2001 U1 - 915.60409034 21 PY - 2001/// CY - Durham [England] PB - ASTENE KW - Middle East KW - Description and travel KW - Congresses KW - History KW - 19th century KW - fast KW - Cambridge (1999) KW - swd N1 - Contains papers developed from the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East's 1999 Cambridge conference; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -