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Books & Reviews

• Review Editors for the Bulletin are Edwin Aiken (Union College, 108 Botanic Avenue, Belfast BT7 1JT) (general topics) and Kathryn Ferry (arts and literature) c/o the ASTENE Administratve Office.
  

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  Author's disclaimer: My work is, therefore, only a faithful, unornamented record of what we saw and heard; the scholar will learn nothing by it save a few facts that I have recorded in hopes of his drawing those deductions from them of which I am myself incapable. I have, in fact, written chiefly for those who, compelled to stay home, like to draw their chairs to the cheerful coal-fire, to shut out the grey sky and dripping rain of England, and to follow in fancy the footsteps of those who have enjoyed the realities of travel.
  (Emily Beaufort, Viscountess Strangford, Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines, p. vii, 1861)

  • Palestine and Egypt under the Ottomans: Paintings, Books, Photographs, Maps and Manuscripts by Hisham Khatib, ISBN 1-86064-888-6, 272 pp., illustrated, 2003. £59.50
  • Merchant Adventurers in the Levant: Two British Families of privateers, consuls and traders 1700-1950 by Tom Rees. Talbot Publishing, 211 pp., illustrated, ISBN 0-9545566-0-7 hardback and ISBN 0-9545566-1-5 softback, 2003.
  • Lady Anne Blunt: A Biography by H.V.F. Winstone, Barzan Publishing with Stacey International, 366 pp., 8pp. colour photo-graphs, 8 pp. black and white, casebound, £19.95, 2003. ISBN 1900988 577.
  • Born to Rebel: the life of Harriet Boyd Hawes by M. Allsebrook, 244 pp. Index, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2002, paperback 1-84217-041-4, £12.95
  • Description of Egypt: Notes and Views in Egypt and Nubia, Made during the Years 1825, -26, -27, and -28, Edward Lane, Jason Thompson (Editor), American University in Cairo Press, 588 pp. ISBN: 9774245253. LE 120; $29.50, £24.95.
  • The Englishwoman in Egypt by Sophia Poole, edited by Azza Kararah, 304 pp. hardback, American University in Cairo Press, 2003. ISBN 977 424 799 X LE120; $29.50; £24.95.
  • Explorers and Artists in the Valley of the Kings by Catherine H. Roehrig, foreword by Kent Weeks, American University in Cairo Press, Cairo and New York, 2002. pp. 96, 120 colour illustrations, ISBN 977-424-705-1. US$ 29.50 (hardback)

  • The Monuments of Egypt and Nubia by Ippolito Rosellini by Franco Serino, American University in Cairo Press, 2003. pp. 128, 120 colour illustrations, ISBN 977-424-789-2. US$ 29.50 (hardback)

   

Past Reviews

How travel accounts were reviewed at the time of their publication is relevant to ASTENE researches into the travels they describe. The Bulletin welcomes contributions of excerpts from past book reviews from Britain and other countries - in English and other languages.

Ramses: an Egyptian Tale, with Historical Notes of the Era of the Pharaohs, in 3 Volumes, Post 8vo. reviewed in the Oriental Herald, July-Sept., 1825. No author given, but possibly John Silk Buckingham, the editor.