Unfolding the Orient

edited by Paul and Janet Starkey (Reading: Ithaca, 2001). ISBN 0-86372-257-1. £35.00

Contents

Introduction - Paul and Janet Starkey

1 A Textual Landscape: The Mapping of a Holy Land in the Fourth-Century ltinerarium of the Bordeaux Pilgrim
Glenn Bowman

2 The Grand Tour in the Ottoman Empire. 1699–1826
Philip Mansel

3 Dressing Native
John Rodenbeck

4 English Pleasure Travel in the Near East 1580–1645
John Ghazvinian

5 Egypt in 1615–1616 as seen through the Eyes of the Armenian Simeon of Poland
Angèle Kapoïan

6 Adam Olearius's Travels to Persia, 1633–1639
Elio Brancaforte

7 The British in Oman since 1645
Sir Terence Clark

8 Ruins and Landscapes from Sardis to Stowe:The Work of Giovanni Battista Borra
Jane Ayer Scott

9 Ottoman Women through the Eves of Mary Wortley Montagu
Mary Ann Fay

10 James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855): An Anecdotal Traveller
Peta Rée

11 Lord Belmore proceeds up the Nile in 1817–1818
Deborah Manley

12 From Cairo to Petra: Léon de Laborde and L.M.A. Linant de Bellefonds, 1828
Pascale Linant de Bellefonds

13 James Burton and Slave Girls
Neil Cooke

14 The Reverend Jolliffe's Advice to Travellers
Patricia Usick

15 Italian Travellers in Egypt
Marta Petricioli and Barbara Codacci

16 Nile Notes of a Howadji: American Travellers in Egypt, 1837–1903
Martin R. Kalfatovic

17 Romances and Realities of Travellers
Nadia El Kholy

Select Bibliography
Index