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 Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early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
East and west of Zagros : travel, war and politics in Persia and Iraq 1913-1921 /
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C.J. Edmonds published articles in orientalist journals and co-authored with Taufiq Wahby A Kurdish-English dictionary (Oxford, 1966). He published his memoirs of Iraq, Kurds, Turks, and Arabs : politics, travel and research in North-Eastern Iraq, 1919-1925 (London - New York, 1957), but his Persian memoirs remained unpublished. It tells how, after studying oriental languages in Cambridge, he became Consular Officer in Bushire, participated in British campaigns in Mesopotamia during First World War. As a Political Officer in Luristan Edmonds was in charge of the oil fields' security and was sent to Northern Persia after the war, a direct witness of the Jangal upheaval and the 1921 coup d'Etat.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-338) and index. :
9789047426905 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Syria's monuments : their survival and destruction /
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Syria's Monuments: their Survival and Destruction examines the fate of the various monuments in Syria (including present-day Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine/Israel) from Late Antiquity to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century. It examines travellers' accounts, mainly from the 17th to 19th centuries, which describe religious buildings and housing in numbers and quality unknown elsewhere. The book charts the reasons why monuments lived or died, varying from earthquakes and desertification to neglect and re-use, and sets the political and social context for the Empire's transformation toward a modern state, provoked by Western trade and example. An epilogue assesses the impact of the recent civil war on the state of the monuments, and strategies for their resurrection, with plentiful references and web links.
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1 online resource. :
9789004334601 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
A physician on the Nile : [a description of Egypt and journal of the famine years] /
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"A Physician on the Nile begins as a description of everyday life in Egypt at the turn of the seventh/thirteenth century, before becoming a harrowing account of famine and pestilence"--
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xliv, 256 pages : maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9781479806249
Ibn Khaldūn : al-Bahṛ al-Mutawassit ̣fī al-qarn al-rābiʻ ʻashar : qiyām wa-suqūt ̣imbarātụ̄rīyāt : maʻrid ̣bi-al-Qasṛ al-Malakī fī Ishbīlīyah, Māyū-Sibtambir 2006 : dirāsāt /...
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Translation of [the English edition of]: Ibn Jaldún : el Mediterráneo en el siglo XIV : auge y declive de los imperios.
Published in English under title: Ibn Khaldun : the Mediterranean in the 14th century : rise and fall of Empires.
Catalog of an exhibition held in the Real Alcázar de Seville, May-Sept. 2006.
"Fundación El legado andalusí, al-Munazẓạmah al-ʻArabīyah lil-Tarbiyah wa-al-Thaqāfah wa-al-ʻUlūm, al-Majlis al-Watạnī lil-Thaqāfah wa-al-Funūn wa-al-Turāth"--T.p. :
461 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-461). :
9789776163805
9776163807
Travellers in Ottoman lands : the botanical legacy /
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This splendidly illustrated work focuses on the botanical legacy of many parts of the former Ottoman Empire - including present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, and the Arabian Peninsula - as seen and described by travellers both from within and from outside the region.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes index. :
1 online resource (xxii, 358 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps :
Specialized. :
9781784919160 (ebook) :
Journeys erased by time : the rediscovered footprints of travellers in Egypt and the Near East /
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Early travellers in Egypt and the Near East made great contributions to our historical and geographical knowledge and gave us a better understanding of the different peoples, languages and religions of the region. Travellers in this volume are a mixture of rich and poor, bravely adventuring into the unknown, not knowing if would ever return home.
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Co-published with ASTENE.
Includes index. :
1 online resource (xvi, 350 pages) : illustrations (colour) :
Specialized. :
9781789692419 (PDF ebook) :
Pious pilgrims, discerning travellers, curious tourists : changing patterns of travel to the Middle East from medieval to modern times /
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This volume comprises a varied collection of seventeen papers presented at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) held in York in July 2019, which together will provide the reader with a fascinating introduction to travel in and to the Middle East over more than a thousand years.
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Conference proceedings.
Also issued in print: 2020. :
1 online resource (422 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781789697537 (PDF ebook) :