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Travellers in the Levant : voyagers and visionaries / edited by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff.

Contributor(s): Searight, Sarah | Wagstaff, J. Malcolm (John Malcolm), 1940- | Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East
Material type: TextTextSeries: Astene publications: Publisher: Durham, [England] : ASTENE, 2001Description: xiv, 233 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0953970019 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780953970018 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Middle East -- Description and travel | Middle East -- History -- 19th centuryBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
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.

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.

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