ASTENE EVENTS, CONFERENCE AND AGM:
OTHER
NEWS, EXHIBITIONS, CONFERENCES and LECTURES
BOOKS & REVIEWS
- The Arab Chest by
Sheila Unwin, Arabian Publishing, London, 2006, ISBN 978 09544 79268,
illustrated, h/b £25.
- The Copts and the West, 1439-1822: the European Discovery of the Coptic Church by Alistair Hamilton, OUP, Oxford, 2006; ISBN 0199288779, h/b 234 pp + bibl. & index, £85.00, $150
- Journal of Comparative Poetics: Alif 26, 2006: Wanderlust: Travel literature of Egypt and the Middle East, ISBN 0977 4160118; ISSN 1110-8673; p/b $20.
- Howard Carter and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun by H.V.F. Winstone, Barzan, Manchester, 2006, ISBN 1-905 521 057 and 1- 905-521-049; 438 pp. (including notes, bibliography and index), h/b £19.95, p/b £ 9.95
- Traveling through Sinai: from
the fourth to the twenty-first century edited by Deborah
Manley and Sahar Abdel-Hakim, (American University in Cairo Press, Cairo
and New York, 2006), 257 pp., ISBN 1- 977 416 O22 3; 13- 978 977 416
022 6, E£ 20
- Constantinople by Edmondo de Amicis, translated by Stephen Parkin with a foreword by Umberto Eco, (Hesperus Press, London, 2006); ISBN 1-843-911-183; illustrated ; p/b £9.99
- Istanbul: A Traveller's Guide by Sue Rollin and Jane Streetly, (Garnet Publishing, London), 2005, ISBN 1-859 641-512; maps, colour photographs, index; p/b £12.95
- Travellers in Libya
selected and edited by John Wright, Society for Libyan Studies, ISBN
1900971038, 255 pp, £10
- Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland, Orion Children's Books, London, 2006, ISBN 13; 978 1 84255 273 5; 10: 1 84255 273 2, 388 pp. inc. word-list, £12.99
CLASSICS REVISITED
While it is important to keep the Bulletin's readership abreast of recent
publications of interest in ASTENE's research areas, at times it is also
rewarding to spread the news of not-so-new publications. Over the next
few Bulletins we will be considering books now out of print (recently
and for more than a century - or two!) that are of value in our researches.
If you have any suggestions for this list, please forward them to the
Review Editor.
- Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photographs 1839-1925 by Ken Jacobson
- A Traveller's History of Egypt by Harry Ades
- The Sphinx Revealed: A Forgotten Record of Pioneering Excavations by Patricia Usick and Deborah Manley
- Meetings with Remarkable Muslims, edited by Barnaby Rogerson and Rose Baring
- Le Rajah de Bourbon by Prince Michael of Greece
The Great Desert Caravan Route to India by
Douglas Caruthers (Hakluyt Society, London, 1929)
Not Package Travel, please
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
- TWO EXTRAORDINARY WORKS
We have long awaited Nicholas Warner's great works on Cairo and decided to treat John Rodenbeck's splendid reviews of them as a review-article. - A YEAR SPENT IN EGYPT BY THE ROYAL DANISH EXPEDITION 1761-1762
The Monuments of Historic Cairo: A Map and Descriptive Catalogue by Nicholas Warner, American University Press, Cairo, 2005, 241 pp. + map in 31 rectangular sections. 23 x 33 cms. ISBN 977-424-841-4, £36.50.
The True Description of Cairo: Sixteenth Century Venetian View by Nicholas Warner, The Arcadian Library, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. Vol. 1: 216 pp. 23.5 x 32 cm; Vol. II: 237 pp. + topographic key, 23.5 x 32 cm; Vol. III: 1 map, 126 x 215 cm, ISBN 978-0-19-74406-1, £185
- KING TUTANKHAMUN IN 1922
- AN ENUMERATION OF CAIRO
- THE WATERS OF THE NILE
- TONGUES TWISTED, 1819
- COMING TO DAMASCUS FROM THE DESERT
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