American travelers on the Nile : early U.S. visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839 /
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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 Gottingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travellers, 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, travelling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean world. More than thirty illustrations complement the stories told by the travellers themselves.
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xxi, 412 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9774166671
9789774166679 :
Omnia
Charlemagne's survey of the Holy Land : wealth, personnel, and buildings of a Mediterranean church between antiquity and the Middle Ages : with a critical edition and translation o...
: xxii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9780884023630 : aya
Viaggio in Egitto : l'Ottocento riscopre la terra dei faraoni /
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"Fondazione Cosso"--Cover.
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Castello di Miradolo, San Secondo di Pinerolo, Italy, October 1, 2011-January 29, 2012. :
221 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references pages 214-219. :
9788878892606
The life and correspondence of Henry Salt, his Britannic Majesty's late Consul general in Egypt /
: "Egypt, a descriptive poem, with notes. By a traveller [i.e. H. Salt] ... Alexandria, Printed for the author, by A. Draghi, 1824": v. 2, p.[387]-420. : 2 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm.