ASTENE NEWS and FORTHCOMING EVENTS:
- Conference Bursaries
- 'Two Extraordinary Houses': A Visit to the Arab Hall
- A Further Look at Lord Leighton
- Rediscovering Egypt: The Ancient and the Oriental
- ASTENE Tour of Syria
- A decade of ASTENE Publication
- Travellers on the Hajj Study Day
- ASTENE Members and the Bulletin
- The 'Yellow Pages'
OTHER
EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS and ACTIVITIES
EXHIBITIONS
CONFERENCES, LECTURES & COURSES
OTHER NEWS
BOOKS & REVIEWS
As has happened before the Winter issue of the Bulletin seems to be a
'bumper book issue'. Tom Rees has brought together many titles - some
by ASTENE members, others published by ASTENE members - and many people
- mostly ASTENE members - to review them. He is now stepping down as Reviews
Editor and Dr Edwin Aiken will be returning as Reviews Editor for the
next Bulletin. We would like to thank Tom Rees for all his good work over
the past year. In future material for review should be sent to Dr Aiken
at 1 Ulster Avenue, Annalong, Newry, Co. Downe, BT 34 47X.
- Croatia
through Writers' Eyes by Peter Frankopan, Francis Gooding
and Stephen Lavington, Eland Books, London, 2006 ISBN 0 907871 89 5,
p/b 248 pp. + bibliography & map, £12.99.
- Syria through Writers' Eyes by Marius Kociejowski, Eland Books, London, 2006, ISBN 0 907871 84 4, p/b, 251 pp inc, bibliography, linocuts by Mungo McCosh, £12.99.
- Cairo Illustrated by Michael Haag, AUC Press, Cairo, ISBN 977-424-935-6, h/b. 96 pp + 150 colour illustrations, £15.95.
- The Englishman, the Moor and the Holy City: The True Adventures of an Elizabethan Traveller by Joan Taylor, Tempus Publishing, Stroud, 2006, ISBN 0 7524 4009 8, 233 pp. + endnotes, bibl. and index, £20.00.
- The Earl and his Butler in Constantinople:
Introducing the Diary of Samuel Medley, Butler, 1733-36
by Nigel and Caroline Webb, Legini Press, Oakham, 2006, ISBN 0-9553311,
ISBN 978-0-9553311-0-7, p/b 240 pp, 1 map + bibliography and annex,
£11.99.
- The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great by Andrew Michael Chugg, Periplus Publishing Ltd. London, 2004-5,. ISBN 1-902699-62-9, 276 pp. + biblio & index, numerous illustrations, £8.00
- Six Months in the Hijaz: Journeys to Makkah and Madinah 1877-1878 by John Keane, Foreword by William Facey, Barzan Publishing Ltd, Manchester, 2006, h/b ISBN 1905521-08-1, 512 pp., £19.95.
- Sons of Sindbad: an account
of sailing with the Arabs in their dhows in the Red Sea, round the coasts
of Arabia, and to Zanzibar and Tanganyika; pearling in the Persian Gulf;
and the life of the shipmasters and the mariners of Kuwait
by Alan Villiers with an introduction by William Facey, Yacoub al-Hiji
and Grace Pundyk, Arabian Publishing, London, 2006, ISBN-10: 0 9544792
3 8; ISBN-13978 0 9544792 3 7.
- The Accidental Tourist: Wilfred Scawen Blunt and the British Invasion of Egypt in 1882 by Michael D. Berdine, Routledge New York and London, 2006, ISBN 9-780-41594644-5 and 10:0-415-94644-1, h/b. 305 pp, £50/ $80.
- Daughter of the Desert: the remarkable life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell, Macmillan, Basingstoke and Oxford, 2006. ISBN -13: 978-1-4050-4587-2, ISBN-10: 1-4050-4587-6, h/b, xvii + 519 (inc. end-notes, bibliography, chronology, + index), 3 maps, 35 photographs on 16 plates, £20.
- The Lost Oases by A.M.
Hassanein Bey introduced by Michael Haag, American University in Cairo
Press, 2006, 311 pp. + Index, ISBN 9 774 249 801, h/b $29.50, p/b $19.50/c.
£15
The Lost Oases by A.M. Hassanein Bey, Long Riders' Guild Press, 2006, 363 pp. ISBN 1590481461, p/b $19.99/£14.99 - From Stonehenge to Samarkand: an anthology of archaeological travel writing edited by Brian Fagan, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-019-516091-8, £19.99/$35
- Who Owns Objects? The Ethics and Politics of Collecting Cultural Artefacts edited F. Robson, L. Treadwell, C. Gosden, Oxbow Books, Oxford, 2006, ISBN 1 84217 233 6, £24.
- The Mysterious Captain Brocklehurst, General Gordon's Unknown Aide by Jean Bray, Reardon Publishing, Cheltenham, 2006, p/b 188 pp + biblio and index, ISBN 1 873877 77 3 and 978187387777, £9.99 inc. uk p & p
- Egypt's Belle Epoque, Cairo and the Age of the Hedonists by Trevor Mostyn, Tauris Paperback, 2006, 202pp, ISBN 1 84511240 7 £10.99
- HOW TO GARDEN IN A VICTORIAN CITY
- REPRINTS OF THE TRAVELLERS
- MUSLIMS OF GREAT BRITAIN: A BRIEF HISTORY
- THE MONUMENTS OF HISTORIC CAIRO
RESEARCH RESOURCES
The articles in this section only appear in the Bulletin pages for our members and are not entered on the website.
- ANCESTORS and TRAVELLERS
- Richard Pococke, Southampton and Highclere
- Dr Richard Pococke and Time
- CHRISTMAS-DAY IN TURKEY
- DINING WITH MADAME BENEDETTI
- SO MUCH TO SEE IN DAMASCUS!
- DATES IN ARABIA