Bulletin for the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the
Near East: Notes and Queries
Contents
No. 8 October 1999
ASTENE Calendar 1; Tamarind and Saffron 2; The Aims of the
Association 2; ASTENE Information 3; Third Travellers in Egypt and the Near East
Conference, Newnham College, Cambridge 4; Chairman's Letter 9; ASTENE Publications
9; ASTENE News and Events 9 Vivant Denon and
Romanticism 9; Vivant Denon Exhibition in Paris 10; Evening at the Palestine Exploration
Fund 10; Itineraries to Jerusalem 10; Travellers in Egypt Day School 10; ASTENE
AGM 2000 10; ASTENE Biennial Conference 2001 10; Recent Exhibitions
and Conferences 10; Friends and Rivals in the East 10; Ottoman
Conference 11; Seeking Plants in the Levant 11; Forthcoming Exhibitions 11; The
Collector's Art 11; Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment 12; Voyages
of Discovery 12; Forthcoming Conferences 12; Sinai 12; L'Orient
des Femmes 12; Travel Culture 13; Panel on Travel Writing at the end of Empire
13; Orientalism 13; Lecture Programmes 13; Events 13; British
Museum 13; The Directory of British Egyptology Societies 14; Exchanges
14; Obituaries 14; Useful Websites 15; A Concourse
of Travellers and Artists 15; News 16; Queries
16; The English Giraffe: postscript 17; Views of Egypt: Spiridon Scarvelli 18;
Captain Speedy 19; The Egyptian House 20; Encyclopaedia on Travel and Exploration
20; Research Resources 21; Resources in Cairo
22; The Royal Society 23; Book Review 24; Titles of Publications
Submitted to ASTENE 25; Forthcoming books by ASTENE members 25; Books 26