RESEARCH RESOURCES

• The ASTENE Resources Research Project P. Usick
• ASTENE Journal Project Journal entry , 1819; Journal Discoveries
• Belzoni Strays in Devon Robert Morkot
• The Collections of the RGS Malcolm Wagstaff
• Documents on Line P. Ree
• Online British Library Catalogue
• Tracings and Objects Unveiled
• European Artists
• Egyptian Mirage and Levantine Mirage
• Conway Photographic Collection
• An important new archive partnership: RIBA at V & A P. Ree
• Gravestones and Memorial

BOOKS & REVIEWS

"O that my adversary had written a book," is an exclamation which betrays no slight knowledge of Reviewers. (Sir Frederick Henniker's Preface to his own book, Notes during a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai and Jerusalem, 1821.)

The Bulletin Review Editors are Edwin Aiken, School of Geography, Queen's University, Belfast and Dr Kathryn Ferry (art and architecture), 20 Castle Street, Great Torrington, Devon EX38 8EZ.

ASTENE'S OWN TITLES
A small number of the three books which ASTENE self-published are still available through Oxbow Books, Park End. Oxford OX1. For other details and North America, see Bulletin 20.

Travellers in the Levant: Voyagers and Visionaries edited by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff, ISBN 0 9539700 1 9 Included are papers on William Martin Leake and associates, William Gell, Lady Hester Stanhope, Marianne North, Edward Lear, J.F. Lewis, Muslim Travellers, Italian Travellers, Pilgrimage to Tourism.
Desert Travellers from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence edited by Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly, ISBN 0 953900 00 Papers in this volume include: Medieval Arabic and European travel writing, James Bruce, G.B. Brocchi, Linant de Bellefonds, Ameen Rihani, the Gordon Relief Expedition, and, of course Herodotus and T.E. Lawrence.
Egypt through the Eyes of Travellers edited by Paul Starkey and Nadia El Kholy, ISBN 0 9539700 2 7 includes papers focusing largely but not exclusively on 19th century travellers and their attitudes to the country.

• Off the Beaten Track: Three Centuries of Women Travellers by Dea Birkett, hardback, 144 pp., illustrated, National Portrait Gallery, London £18.99, ISBN 1 85514 526.
• A Victorian Traveler in the Middle East: The Photography and Travel Writing of Annie Lady Brassey by Nancy Micklewright, Ashgate, 256 pp., b&w photographs, hardback £50. 2003, ISBN 0754632024
• The People's Chef: Alexis Soyer, a life in seven courses by Ruth Brandon, 320 pp., illustrated, ISBN 0-470-86991-7, £16.99
• Zieht hin und erforscht das Land: Die deutsche Palaststinaforschung im 19 Jahrhundret by Haim Goren, translated from the Hebrew by Clara Naujoks, 432 pp. including bibliography and Index, Goettingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2003, E44.00, ISBN 3-89244-673-3
• Byzantium Rediscovered by J.B. Bullen, Phaidon Press, 240 pp., c. 220 colour, 30 b&w ills,. hardback £45, 2003, ISBN 0714839574
• Travellers in the Near East, edited by Charles Foster, 305 pp., B/W illustrations, Stacey International, London, ISBN 1-900988-71-2, £18.50

PAST REVIEWS

Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor, during the Years 1817 and 1818 by the Hon, Charles Irby and James Mangles 560 pp., - Printed for Private Distribution.

A MUSICAL NOTE: An addition to review of The Rise of International Travel, Bulletin 20.