edited by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff (Durham: Astene, 2001). ISBN 0-9539700-1-9. £19.95 (£17.50 for members)
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Preface Paul Starkey Series Editor
Introduction Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff
I. Colonel Leake and Associates
Introduction
Colonel Leake: traveller and scholar
Malcolm Wagstaff
William Martin Leake and the Greek Revival
Hugh Ferguson
Leake in Kythera
Davina Huxley
Straddling the Aegean: William Gell 1811—1813
Charles Plouviez
The Anger of Lady Hester Stanhope: some letters of Lady Hester, John Lewis Burckhardt and William John Bankes
Norman N. Lewis
Jacob Jonas Björnståhl and his Travels in Thessaly
Berit Wells
II. From Pilgrimage to Tourism
Introduction
Levels of Contact between East and West: pilgrims and visitors to Jerusalem and Constantinople from the ninth to the twelfth centuries
Peter Frankopan
Muslim Travellers to Bilad al-Sham (Syria and Palestine) from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries: Maghribi travel accounts Yehoshu'a Frenkel
Italian Travellers to the Levant: retracing the Bible in a world of Muslim and Jews, 1815—1914
Barbara Codacci
The Norths in Syria, Egypt and Palestine, 1865V1866
Brenda Moon
The Pilgrimage to Budding Tourism: the role of Thomas Cook in the rediscovery of the Holy Land
Ruth Kark
III. Fact and Fantasy
Introduction
J.F. Lewis 1805V1876: mythology as biography
Emily Weeks
Edward Lear's Travels to the Holy Land: visits to Mount Sinai, Petra and Jerusalem
Hisham Khatib
'Oriental novellas' in the works of Gerard de Nerval, 1840s
Marianna Taymanova
List of Contributors
Index