Every traveller needs a compass : travel and collecting in Egypt and the Near East

Every traveller needs a compass : travel and collecting in Egypt and the Near East /

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Corporate Author: Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East. Conference (Author)
Other Authors: Cooke, Neil, 1947- (Editor), Daubney, Vanessa (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2015
Subjects:
Travelers > Egypt > Congresses.
Travelers > Middle East > Congresses.
Travelers' writings, European > Congresses.
Egypt > Description and travel > Congresses.
Middle East > Description and travel > Congresses.
Egypt > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting > Europe > Congresses.
Middle East > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting > Europe > Congresses.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Neil Cooke
  • Sir John Young, High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands, and his private letter book, 1856-57 / Sonia P. Anderson
  • Edward Lear in Gozo, March 1868 / Joseph Attard Tabone
  • The travels of G. A. Wallin and his views on Western influence in the Middle East / Patricia Berg
  • The relative contributions of William John Bankes and Charles Barry to the early plans of Gerasa/Jerash (Jordan) : evidence from the Bankes and Barry archives / Don Boyer
  • John-Jacques Rifaud's lithographs : his drawings of Egyptian archaeology, natural history, manners and customs / Marie-Cécile Bruwier
  • Travelling companions : Mohammed Ashgar (also known as John Bedair), 1815-74 / Neil Cooke
  • The innovative antiquarian : Alexander Henry Rhind's excavations in Egypt and his collection in the National Museums Scotland / Ross Irving and Margaret Maitland
  • From the Kremlin's walls to the foot of the pyramids : early Muscovite travellers in Egypt / Maksim Lebedev
  • Hieroglyphs from the north : Newcastle's early travellers in Egypt and their correspondence with Jean-François Champollion / Margaret Maitland
  • Amalia Sola Nizzoli (1805-45/49), archaeologist ante litteram in Egypt and the origins of the third Nizzoli collection / Daniela Picchi
  • Artists and painters in the "German house" at Thebes, 1905-15 / Daniel Polz
  • Raymond O'Shea and the Sand Kings of Oman as a source for Trucial Coast history / Nicholas Stanley-Price
  • Did the elephants ever forget? / Peta Rée
  • The admiral's daughter / John Thompson
  • A Swiss Egyptologist on Her Majesty's service : Edouard Naville (1844-1926) in the Delta / Hélène Virenque
  • Ulrich Jasper Stetzen / Carsten Walbiner
  • Every traveller needs a compass / Ronald E. Zitterkopf.

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