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Book SynopsisLong distance travel and mass tourism are not recent phenomena. This collection of papers from the 2015 ASTENE Conference in Exeter demonstrates that over the centuries many individuals and groups of people have left the safety of their family home and travelled huge distances both for adventure and to learn more about other peoples and places. Some travels were to help establish trade routes, while others were for personal pleasure and knowledge. Many of those who travelled have left little or no record but in a few cases their travels can be determined from the brief encounters they had with other travellers who noted these chance meetings in their journals and diaries, which they later used to inform and write for publication accounts of their own travels and impressions. The 18 papers in this rich and varied collection include: finding the lost diary of a member of the Prussian scientific expedition to Egypt of 1842-45 that was hiding in ‘plain sight’ among other books; the illustrated journal of a Croatian travelling through Egypt, Nubia and Sudan in 1853-4 and the hardships endured; the competition between Officers of the East India Company to find the fastest trade routes through Syria between India and the Red Sea; and identifying the Dutch artist who made paintings of Constantinople and later travelled to India before joining the Bombay Artillery as a Lieutenant-fireworker. All 18 papers are the product of hours of careful research by their authors among original manuscripts and books tracked down in archives, libraries and private collections around the world.
Table of ContentsIntroduction (Neil Cooke) ;
1. The Diary of Max Weidenbach: Encounters with Scholars and Travellers during the Prussian Scientific Expedition to Egypt 1842–45 (Susanne Binder and Boyo G. Ockinga) ;
2. O Cymru i Wlad y Nîl: Teithwyr Cymreig yn yr Aifft From Wales to the Land of the Nile: Welsh Travellers in Egypt (Tessa T. Baber) ;
3. Jakov Šašel (Jacob Schaschel) and his travels to Egypt, Nubia and Africa 1853–54 (Mladen Tomorad) ;
4. Tycoons on the Nile: How American Millionaires brought Egypt to America (Susan Allen) ;
5. A Bostonian in Egypt at the Dawn of Photography (Andrew Oliver) ;
6. Edward Robinson, Eli Smith and Their Travels in Search of Biblical Geography (Susan Cohen) ;
7. The Boston Green Head: Tales of a much-travelled ancient Egyptian sculpture (Lawrence M. Berman) ;
8. Observations, Adventures and Scandals: East India Company Officers on the Red Sea and in the Syrian Desert 1776–81 (Janet Starkey) ;
9. An Artist Recovered from Anonymity: Antoine van der Steen – ‘Un peintre du Bosphore’, a Discoverer of the Midas Monument and Lieutenant-fireworker in the Bombay Artillery (Brian J. Taylor) ;
10. Edmond G. Reuter: A Life between Ancient Egypt and the Arts and Crafts Movement (Hélène Virenque) ;
11. Guilty or Innocent? The Buckingham vs. Bankes Libel Trial of 1826 (Don Boyer) ;
12. Thomas Legh of Lyme: Travels in Greece, and the First Encounters with the Temples of Nubia (Robert G. Morkot) ;
13. ‘A Political Education’: Lady Augusta Gregory in Egypt (Cathy McGlynn) ;
14. Wilde about Egypt: Sir William Wilde in Egypt (Emmet Jackson) ;
15. A French Traveller in the Levant: The Marquis Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé (1829–1916), with reference to William Henry Waddington (1826–94) (Sheila McGuirk) ;
16. In Constantinople During the Crimean War (Peta Rée) ;
17. Joun Encounter: Alexander William Kinglake meets Lady Hester Stanhope (Paul Starkey) ;
18. ‘A Mani Splendoured Thing’ – or Fermor’s Folly (John Chapman) ;
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