Travellers in Egypt

edited by Paul and Janet Starkey (London: I.B. Tauris, 2001). ISBN 1-86064-674-3. £14.95 (paperback)

Contents

1 Introduction
Paul and Janet Starkey

2 European Travellers in Egypt: The Representation of the Host Culture
Hussein M. Fahim

1 Early Travellers

3 Pietro Della Valle in Ottoman Egypt, 1615–1616
Peter M. Holt

4 George Baldwin: Soldier of Fortune?
Rosemarie Said Zahlan

2 Egyptological Travellers

5 A Pioneer Egyptologist: Giovanni Baptista Belzoni, 1778–1823
Peter A. Clayton

6 William John Bankes' Collection of Drawings of Egypt and Nubia
Patricia Usick

7 Linant de Bellefonds: Travels in Egypt, Sudan and Arabia Petraea, 1818–1828
Marcel Kurz and Pascale Linant de Bellefonds

8 A Prussian Expedition in 1820: Heinrich von Minutoli
Joachim S. Karig

9 The Journeys of Lord Prudhoe and Major Orlando Felix in Egypt, Nubia and the Levant, 1826–1829
John Ruffle

10 The Forgotten Egyptologist: James Burton
Neil Cooke

3 Women in Egypt

11 Two Brides: Baroness Menu von Minutoli and Mrs Colonel Elwood
Deborah Manley

12 A Honeymoon in Egypt and the Sudan: Charlotte Rowley, 1835–1836
Peter Rowley-Conwy et al

4 Artists and Photographers

13 The Unknown Nestor L'Hôte
Diane Sarofim Harleé

14 Between Two Lost Worlds: Frederick Catherwood
Jason and Angela T. Thompson

15 A Naval Tourist, 1834–1840: Captain Henry Byam Martin
Sarah Searight

16 Two Interpretations of Islamic Domestic Interiors in Cairo: J. F. Lewis and Frank Dillon
Briony Llewellyn

17 Travellers, Colonisers and Conservationists
Hossam M. Mahdy

18 A Nineteenth-Century Photographer: Francis Firth
Caroline Williams

5 Literary Interaction: Egyptian Influence on European Literature

19 Alexandre Dumas in Egypt: Mystification or Truth?
Marianna Taymanova

20 Flaubert's Egypt: Crucible and Crux for Textual Identity
Mary Orr

21 Egypt Imagined, Egypt Visited: Théophile Gautier
Peter Whyte

22 Juliusz Slowacki in Egypt 1836–37
Jan Weryho

23 French Women Travellers: A Discourse Marginal to Orientalism?
John David Ragan

6 E. W. Lane and Scholarly Perceptions

24 Edward Said and Edward William Lane
John Rodenbeck

25 Texts from Nineteenth-Century Egypt: The Role of E. W. Lane
Geoffrey Roper

7 European Influences on Egypt

26 Travellers' Rendezvous and Cultural Institutions in Muhammad 'Ali's Egypt
Philip Sadgrove

27 Views of al-Azhar in the Nineteenth Century: Gabriel Charmes and 'Ali Pasha Mubarak
Michael J. Reimer

28 Egyptian Travellers in Europe
Paul Starkey

Select Bibliography
Index of People and Places