Desert Travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence

edited by Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly (Durham: Astene, 2000). ISBN 0-9539700-0-0. £19.95 (£17.50 for members)

Contents

List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Preface, Paul Starkey Series Editor
Introduction Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly

I. Crocodiles, Pilgrims and Isolated Villages

The Zoology of Herodotus and his Greek Descendants
Charles Foster

Egyptian Deserts in Early Medieval Arabic Travel Writing
Okasha El Daly

Two Pilgrims at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Niccolò di Poggibonsi and Christopher Harant
Anne Wolff

Travellers at Tayyibah: the northern desert of Syria, 1600–1980
Norman Lewis

II. Gold, Ruins and Journeys into the Unknown

The Double Voice of James Bruce, Abyssinian Traveller
Carl Thompson

William Eaton: a forgotten American Voice
Cassandra Vivian

Giovanni Battista Brocchi, an Italian Scientist in the Near East
Paolo Branca

A la découverte des mines d'or du désert nubien: L.M.A. Linant de Bellefonds en Etbave, 1831–1832
Marcel Kurz et Pascale Linant de Bellefonds

Gold, Emeralds and the Unknown Ababda
Janet Starkey

Ancient Egypt and the Gordon Relief Expedition
David Dixon

III. A Search for Identity?

`In a position to fathom the Arabs': Ameen Rihani, traveller to the Arab Near East
Geoffrey Nash

Deraa Revisited
John Rodenbeck

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index