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No. 28 Summer 2006

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3-6	ASTENE NEWS and FORTHCOMING EVENTS: Chairman's Annual Report - Dr Brian Taylor ASTENE membership around the world Congratulations to Paul Starkey Visit to Sudeley Castle Visit to the Islamic Centre, Oxford Pilgrims and Travellers to Mt Sinai and St Catherine's Convent Study Day: Travellers on the Hajj
6-8	OTHER EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS and ACTIVITIES EXHIBITIONS Sinai and other landscapes by David Kennard: at Gallery 54, 54 Shepherd's Market, Piccadilly, London W1 from 25th July - 8 August. The exhibition includes the pictures David painted while on the ASTENE tour to Sinai in March. website: www.riskkennard.co.uk CONFERENCES, LECTURES & COURSES Courses at Madingley Hall, Cambridge Red Sea Project III: Cultural Connections of the Red Sea OTHER ACTIVITIES The Cedars at Highclere Castle Travellers to Greece Golden Boats on the Nile
8-13	BOOKS & REVIEWS Please send information about books the Bulletin might review to Reviews Editor: Thomas Rees, The Old Manor House, Bridgewater, Stanwell, Somerset TA7 9AE; Tel: 00 44 (0) 1278 722190; Fax: 00 44 (0) 1278 723273; E-mail: tbrees@btinternet.com *The Egyptians: An Introduction* by Robert Morkot, Routledge, London and New York, 2005; pb is + 230 pp. 24 illus. and maps, ISBN 0-41527104-5, £13.99 *The Discovery of Egypt: Vivant Denon's Travels with Napoleon's Army* by Terence M. Russell, Sutton Publishing, 2005, h/b xxi+266 pp., numerous illustrations, £20, ISBN 0-7509-4145-6 *The Tomb of Agamemnon: Mycenae and the Search for a Hero* by Cathy Gere, Profile Books, London, 2006, ISBN 1-86197-617-8, £15.99 *Wilfred Thesiger: the Life of the Great Explorer* by Alexander Maitland, London: Harper Collins, 2006, pp 528, ISBN 0-00255 608 1, h/b £25 *Subjects of the Sultan, Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire* by Suraiya Faroqhi, I. B. Tauris, London and New York, 2006, ISBN 1 85043 760 2 *A Dead Man in Istanbul* by Michael Pearce, Constable, London, 2005, ISBN 1-84529-131-X *Francis Frith's Egypt and the Holy Land: The Pioneering Photographic Expeditions to the Middle East. with an Introduction and notes by Richard Lunn and additional modern photographs. The Francis Frith Collection, 2005. 234 pp. ISBN 1-85937-793-9, £24.99 For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies* by Robert Irwin, Allen Lane, London, 2006, 376 ppIndex, ISBN 0-713-99415-0, h/b £25. Re-orienting the Renaissance: Cultural Exchanges with the East* edited by Gerald Maclean, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2005, xxiii + 174 pp + Index, 4 ills., ISBN 1-403-99233-9, h/b £19.99. *Alexandria: A City and a Myth* by Niall Finneran, Stroud, Temous, 2005), pp. 158, ISBN 9-780752-433417, p/b £17.99. *A Taste of Thyme: Culinary Cultures of the Middle East* edited by Sami Zubaida and Richard Tapper, foreword by Claudia Roden, 1994, re-issued 2005, I.B. Tauris, p/b, ISBN 1 86064603 4
13-14	OTHER BOOKS, ETC: A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, edited by William Smith with a new introduction by Christopher Stray, I.B. Taurus, London, November 2006, 2 volume set, 2518 pp + maps, illustrated throughout. £295 (possible discount for advance orders). ISBN: 1 845 11 0005 *TRAVEL BOOK AND MAP AUCTIONS* *ARABIC SELF-TAUGHT*
14-16	NOTES AND QUERIES
17-20	RESEARCH RESOURCES The articles in this section only appear in the Bulletin pages for our members and are not entered on the website. THE JOHN MURRAY ARCHIVE ADMIRALTY HANDBOOKS TRAVELLERS' GRAFFITI: ROBERT WOOD 1854 AND I.R. INGLEDEW 1854 THE HOMEWARD MAIL FROM INDIA, CHINA AND THE EAST RESEARCH RESOURCES INDEX FOR BULLETINS 24 - 28 WHERE ARE THEY BURIED?
20-23	ARTICLES GALILEE AND NAZARETH, 1876 ON THE WAY TO BAGHDAD HORSE AND HOUND VICE VERSA: A TRAVELLER FROM EGYPT
23-24	FOOTPRINTS HORSES AND HEROES THE PLAGUE ARRIVES IN EGYPT TEACHERS IN SYRIA WONDERS OF STEAM NAVIGATION A VIEW OF LADY HESTER