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- Sudan Archive, Durham University Library
BOOK REVIEWS
The ASTENE Bulletin Book Reviews Editor is Ashley Jones. He can be
contacted at Waters End, Broom Water West, Teddington, Middlesex TW11
9QH, or on ashleyjones40@hotmail.com
Pilgrimage
to Mecca by Lady Evelyn Cobbold, biographical introduction
by William Facey and Miranda Taylor, notes by Ahmad S. Turkistani. London:
Arabian Publishing, 2008 ISBN 978-9544792-8-2. H/b 352 pp, 50 photos,
index. £25.
- From the Harpy Tomb to the Wonders of Ephesus: British Archaeologists in the Ottoman Empire 1840–1880 by Debbie Challis. London: Duckworth, 2008. ISBN 978 0 7156 3757 9. P/b 210 pp, illustrated. £18.
- Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading
the Middle East by Juan Cole. New York and Basingstoke:
Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008. ISBN-13: 978-1-4039-6431 / ISBN-10: 1-4039-6431-9. H/b $24.95 p/b $16.95. - Lyrics of the Sands by Gloria Kifayeh, with an introduction by Max Scott. London: Stacey International, 2005. ISBN 1 900988 895 £15.70.
- Anton Prokesch von Osten (1795–1876): Ein Diplomat Osterreichs in Athen under der Hohen Pforte by Daniel Bertsch. Munich: R. Oldebourg Verlag, 2005. 754 pp.
Review from the Quarterly Review
Stop Press
As we were going to press, word was received from ASTENE member Caroline
Williams of the mid-October appearance of her Islamic Monuments
in Cairo: The Practical Guide. One reviewer referred to it as
the ‘veritable warhorse of Cairo guides’, and it is now about
to charge out of the stables once more in its sixth caparison. According
to Lonely Planet, ‘this book ought to be in the luggage of every
visitor to Cairo’. Published by the American University in Cairo
Press.
- Joseph Banks
- Who Were the Travellers at Cosseir in 1825?
- Does Anyone Know of Herberts or McClures in Egypt?
- Edward Henry Palmer
- Did Dr Richardson visit Karnak in 1819?
- They Enter the Pyramid
- Mehemet Ali’s Reading
- The Child Dragoman
- Impromptu Songs