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Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence

Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence
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ISBN 0953970000 (pbk.)
Title Desert travellers : from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence / edited by Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly
Publisher Durham : ASTENE, 2000
Physical desc. xxix, 327 p. ; ill. (b&w), maps ; 23 cm.
Series Astene publications 1
Note Based on contributions to a conference held by ASTENE in Cambridge in 1999.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Crocodiles, pilgrims and isolated villages. The zoology of Herodotus and his Greek descendants / Charles Foster -- Egyptian deserts in early medieval Arabic travel writing / Okasha El Daly -- Two pilgrims at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Niccolò di Poggibonsi and Christopher Harant / Anne Wolff -- Travellers at Tayyibah: the northern desert of Syria, 1600-1980 / Norman Lewis -- 2. Gold, ruins and journeys into the unknown. The double voice of James Bruce, Abyssinian traveller / Carl Thompson -- William Eaton: a forgotten American voice / Cassandra Vivian -- Giovanni Battista Brocchi, and Italian scientist in the Near East / Paolo Branca -- A la découverte des mines d'or du désert nubien: L.M.A. Linant de Bellefonds en Etbaye, 1831-1832 / Marcel Kurz et Pascale Linant de Bellefonds -- Gold, emeralds and the unknown Ababda / Janet Starkey -- Ancient Egypt and the Gordon Relief Expedition / David Dixon -- 3. A search for identity? 'In a position to fathom the Arabs': Ameen Rihani, traveller to the Arab Near East / Geoffrey Nash -- Deraa revisited / John Rodenbeck.
Language Note 11 essays in English; one in French.
Subject Travelers -- Middle East -- History
Travelers' writings -- History and criticism
Middle East -- Description and travel
Near East -- Description and travel
Added name(s) Starkey, Janet 1948- ed.
Daly, Okasha El ed.
Added name(s) - Corporate Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East
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