RESEARCH RESOURCES

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• ASTENE JOURNAL RESEARCH PROJECT:
  Somerset Record Office
• A PROBLEM WITH DATES
• RESEARCH RESOURCES INDEX, BULLETINS 17 - 23
• THE JOURNALS
• FINDING, BUYING AND SELLING TREASURES, 182

BOOKS & REVIEWS

Please send information about books the Bulletin might review to Edwin Aiken, 1Ulster Avenue, Annalong, Newry, Co Down, BT34 47X. Kathryn Ferry is starting a new job with the Victorian Society and so, sadly, has had to stand down as a Reviews Editor.

• Women's Costume of the Near and Middle East by Jennifer Scarce, RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2003, ISBN 0-7007-1560-6, p/b 192 pp., 128 b/w ills. 21 diagrams, £19.99
• In the Shadow of Sinai: Stories of Travel and Biblical Research by Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson, Alpha Press (Brighton and Portland, Oregon), ISBN 1-898595-23-2, 1999, £14.99 p/b.
• Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem by Reina Lewis, 297 pp., I.B. Tauris, London, 2004, ISBN 86064-730-8, p/b £14.95
• Muhammad Ali and his Sabil by Agnieszka Dobrowolska and Khaled Fahmy, The American University in Cairo Press, 2004, 64 pages, 130 illustrations, ISBN 977-424-831-7, p/b $12.95
• Egypt 1950: My First Visit by Bernard V. Bothmer, edited by Emma Swann Hall, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2003, xx+ 168 pp, 90 b/w photos, ISBN 0-936770-25-2, h/b £35
• Cairo: A Cultural and Literary History by Andrew Beattie, 256 pp., illus, index, Signet Books Ltd , (The Cities of the Imagination Series) , 2005, 1-902669-77-0, p/b, £12.00
• Dictionary of British Classicists, Thoemmes Continuum, 11 Great George Street, Bristol BS1 5RR (www.thoemmes.com/dictionaries/class. htm), 3 volumes, £495/$845, 2004.
• The Miracles of Exodus: A scientist's discovery of the extraordinary natural causes of the biblical stories by Colin J. Humphreys, Continuum. London, 2004, ISBN 0-8264-7429-2, p/b £10.99.
• Royal Tombs of Great Britain: An illustrated history by Aidan Dodson, Duckworth, London, ISBN 0 7156 33104, h/b £25.
• A Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece by Edward Dodwell, 1822.
• HURST AND BLACKETT'S NEW TITLES FOR 1871
  Turkish Harems and Circassian Homes by Mrs Harvey of Ickwell, Bury, with coloured illustrations.
  A Cruise in Greek Waters with a Hunting Excursion in Tunisia by Captain Townshend
  Wild Life among the Koords by Major F. Millingen - "This book is amusing, and the more valuable as accounts of Koordistan are scarce." Athenaeum
  Eastern Pilgrims: the Travels of three Ladies by Agnes Smith (Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and Greece) - "The tone is devout, and altogether the book deserves our warm commendation." Record
• Medieval Travellers: The rich and the restless by Margaret Wade Labarge, Phoenix, London, 2005 (reprint of 1982 edition), ISBN 0 75382 041 2, £8.99; Canada $18.95.
• Names of the Locations of Cyprus Lost in the Depths of 2000 years of History in Turkish and English by Prof. Dr Ata Atun, Famagusta-Gazimagua: Samtay Foundation 2004. ISBN 975 6653 15 9. Obtainable from the Samtay Foundation. 8 Kermerli Street. Oldtown, Famagusta Cyprus. e-mail suna@samtay.com
  The world price is £11.00, but ASTENE members it is available at £9.50 including packing and airmail postage. Orders should be placed with Prof. Dr Ata Atun, 24 Istikial Avenue, Oldtown, Famagusta, Mersin 10, Turkey. e-mail ata.atun@atun.com.