Illustrations, ISBN: 1900988 712
Price: £18.50, Publication Date: Autumn 2003
Edited by Charles Foster
120 pages, soft bound, 156 x 234 mm portrait
Illustrations, ISBN: 1900988 712
Price: £18.50, Publication Date: Autumn 2003
The Orientalists were a breed apart. Amateur enthusiasts with a thirst for adventure, entrepreneurs hunting for eastern treasures, scientists and early anthropologists and individuals desperate to escape the confines of Europe, these men and women were pioneer tourists in unknown lands. They have left us a legacy of fascinating romantic and enlightening insight into the Near East from a European perspective, and Charles Foster brings together a collection of studies of some of the most vivid and memorable of them in this book, which is published in conjunction with the Association for Study of Travellers in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE).
1. Introduction: Charles Foster.
2. “A Tale of Two Ciceros: Travels in Asia Minor in the late Roman Republic”. Marsha McCoy, Department of Classical Studies, Fairfield University, Connecticut.
3. “Mercantile Gentlemen and Inquisitive Travellers: Constructing The National History of Aleppo”. Janet Starkey, University of Durham.
4. “Jean-Baptisté Adanson (1732-1804): A French Dragoman in Egypt and the Near East.” Jen Kimpton, Johns Hopkins University.
5. “The Journey of the Comte de Forbin in the Near East and Egypt, 1817-1818”. Pascale Linant de Bellefonds, Paris.
6. “Travellers, Tribesmen and Troubles: Journeys to Petra, 1812-1914”. Norman Lewis, formerly Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Lebanon.
7. “La Mission Scientifique de Morée: Captain Peytier's Contribution”. Dr. Elizabeth French, formerly Director of British School of Athens, and William Frick, Connecticut.
8. “Surveying the Morea: The French Expedition, 1828-1832”. Professor Malcolm Wagstaff, Southampton University.
9. “Christian Rassam (1808-1872): Translator, Interpreter, Diplomat and Liar”. Geoffrey Roper, University Library, Cambridge.
10. “Mr. and Mrs. Smith in Greece, Egypt and the Levant”. Brenda Moon, formerly University Librarian, Edinburgh University.
11. “Robert Murdoch Smith and the Mausoleum: Excavations at Halicarnassus (Bodrum) 1856-1859”. Jennifer Scarce, University of Dundee.
12. “Listening for the ‘Sound of Running History’. Sir George Adam Smith, 1856-1942”. Rev. Dr. Iain Campbell, Isle of Lewis.
13. “Politics and the Travels of Gertrude Bell”. Dr. Richard Long, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne.
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