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BOOK REVIEWS
The Bulletin Reviews Editor for a number of years, Dr Edwin Aiken,
has stepped down. We are very grateful to him for his imaginative service
to the Bulletin.
We welcome a founder member of ASTENE, Ashley Jones as his replacement.
Some know him from his years at the Museum Bookshop in London. He can
be contacted at ashleyjones40@hotmail.com
or through the 'Yellow Pages', and welcomes suggestions for books to review.
- Islam and the Victorians
by Shahin Kuli Khan Khattak. London: Taurus Academic Studies, 2008.
9781845114299. £47.50.
- Figs, Dates, Laurel and Myrrh:
plants of the Bible and the Quran by
Lytton J. Musselman. Portland, OR.: Timber Press, 2008. 9780881928556.
£20.00.
- Istanbul: a collection of the
poetry of place by Ates Orga, foreword by
Jason Goodwin. London: Eland Press, 2007. 9780955010590. £5.99.
- Geography and Vision
by Denis E. Cosgrove. London: I. B. Tauris, 2008. International Library
of Human Geography, Vol. 12. 9781850438465 hbk. / 9781850438472 pbk.
£45.00/£16.99.
- Women on the Nile: Writings of
Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Amelia Edwards
by Professor Joan Rees, Rubicon Press, Stacey International, London,
2008, ISBN 978-0-948695-74-2, h/b. 196 pp, b/w illustrations, bibliography,
index, £18.95.
- Pilgrimage to Mecca
by Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Arabian Publishing Ltd, London, 352 pp. + 32
pp. black and white photographs, map, Notes, Appendix, Bibliography
and Index, ISBN 978-0-9644792-8-2, h/b, jacketed, £25.00
- The Lure
of the East: British Orientalist Painting
edited by Nicholas Tromans with essays by Rana Kabbani, Fatema Mernissi,
Christine Riding and Emily M. Weeks, Tate Publishing, London, 2008.
224 quarto pages, full colour illustrations throughout. ISBN 978 1 85437
733 3; £24.99
- Anastasius: Memoirs of a Greek
written at the close of the Eighteenth Century by Thomas
Hope, re-issued by Long Riders' Guild Press, Glasgow, Kentucky, 2008.
ISBN 1-594048-282-4
- From the Harpy Tomb to the
Wonders of Ephesus: British Archaeologists in the Ottoman Empire 1840-1880
by Debbie Challis, Duckworth, London, 2008, 210 pages, illustrated,
ISBN 978 0 7156 3757 9, paperback
PAST REVIEWS
Many of the travellers' books were very fully reviewed in the journals
of their day, and these reviews give us a useful insight into how their
travel accounts were received in their day. Here, two reviews brought
to our attention by Peta Ree.
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