Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers

Edited by Nadia El Kholy and Paul Starkey
Illustrated. ISBN 0-9539700-2-7. Published 2002.

This volume presents a further fascinating array of images of Egypt, as seen through the eyes of Western travellers, from the Enlightenment onwards. Missionaries, Egyptologists, novelists and painters all offer their own perspectives. £19.95 (£14.95 for ASTENE members)

Contents

A Public Pageant in 1806: Lord Valentia Visits Egypt en route to India -- Deborah Manley
Berths under the Highest Stars: Henry William Beechey in Egypt, 1816-1819 -- Patricia Usick
Florence Nightingale's Letters from Egypt: An Imperialist Discourse -- Loubna A. Youssef
Preparing to be an Egyptologist: Amelia Edwards before 1873 -- Joan Rees
Rameses III, Giovanni Belzoni and the Mysterious Reverend Browne -- Penelope Wilson
A House, a Museum and a Legend: Bait al-Kretliya (The Gayer-Anderson Museum) -- Nadia El Kholy
The Affair of Lord Morton's Mummy -- Iain Gordon Brown
Silent Travellers, Articulate Mummies: 'Mummy Pettigrew' and the Discourse of the Dead -- Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim
Les Detours fictionnels du recit de voyage: Le Nil, Egypte et Nubie de Maxine Du Camp -- Veronique Magri-Mourgues [Detours, recit, Egypte and Veronique all have an acute accent on the first 'e']
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index.