Travellers in the Levant : voyagers and visionaries / edited by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() |
The BIAA David H. French Library Shelf 28 - Main Room | B5b SEARI 24569 | Not for loan | BOOKS*00000006044 |
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.