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Bulletin for the Association for
the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East: Notes and Queries

Contents

No. 17 Autumn 2003

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2	Contents page including: Details of Annual Subscriptions Members of the Committee
3	Forthcoming Astene Events Fourth ASTENE-OUDCE STUDY DAY, Saturday 21 February, 2004, Rewley House, Oxford. Into Nubia and Beyond: Egypt above the Cataract
4	SIXTH ASTENE BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, 2005 The 6th ASTENE Conference will be at Manchester University in July 2005. Details will be given in future Bulletins, along with an article on Research Resources in Manchester and Liverpool.
5-6	News
6-7	Chairman's Report 2002-2003
7-9	ASTENE CONFERENCE Friday 11th - Monday 14th July, 2003 Papers from the Oxford Conference Papers Presented at the Conference
10-12	Conference Follow Up Wanderings of a Journeyman Tailor The Islamic Solar Calendar used by george Bethune English Owen Jones and Eastern Ornament
13-18	Research Resources Working Papers from ASTENE Conferences Oriental and India Office Collections Auction sale Catalogues The National Maritime Museum THE NEW DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY, 2004 Karl and Fritz Baedeker Update on John Antes Project The First War Photographer: Roger fenton (1819-1869) Creating the Record 1864 The ASTENE Research Resources Project Index to Research resources in Bulletins 3-15
19-21	Graffiti News James Mackenzie, 8th Bengal Cavalry in Egypt A French Painter in the Valley of the Kings: Alfred Arago
22-23	Other News Cyprus Tour Conference: First Call For Papers ASTENE at the V & A Postcript to Brigands
23-28	Books & Reviews Books received Forthcoming Titles Advertise in the Bulletin Reviews How Many Miles to Babylon? Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond from 1300 to 1640. by Anne Wolff, 3 11 pages, illustrated, Liverpool University Press, 2003, ISBN (hardback) 0-85323-658-5 £37.99; ISBN (paperback) 0-85323-668-2, £11.50.. The Diaries of Lorenzo Warriner Pease, 1834-1839, An American Missionary in Cyprus & his Travels in the Holy Land, Asia Minor and Greece, edited by Dr Rita Severis, 2 vols, pp. 1100, 186 b/w illustrations, Ashgate, 2003. £150, ISBN 0 7546 3561 9 The Gates of Africa: Death, Discovery and the Search for Timbuktu by Anthony Sattin, Harper Collins, 2003, pp.273, Illustrations and maps, ISBN 0 00 7122330 Voyage aux Mines d'Or du Pharaon, compose de L'Etbaye, Pays habité par les Arabes Bicharieh: géographie, ethnologie, mines d'or [a new edition] by Linant de Bellefonds Bey, 13 illustrations, map and photograph; 276 pp., Editions Fata Morgan, Montpellier, 2002 ISBN 2.85194.577.
29	ASTENE Books
29	Notes and Queries and Responses
32	End Piece