Publications
ASTENE'S new book
In
July we were proud to launch ASTENE's latest book:
Who Travels Sees More:
Artists, Architects, and
Archaeologists
Discover
Egypt and the Near East
Edited by Dr Diane Fortenberry
Who Travels Sees More is an Arab proverb appropriate for this book -
and for ASTENE in general. This impressive book is a collection of essays
based on papers given at our biennial and overseas conferences and study
days.
The travellers included had backgrounds as artists and architects of one
sort or another - and so responded to what they saw in visual ways - in
many cases taking the revelations of their travels home with them to inspire
their own work.
The book is illustrated with 75 black and white pictures and 16 pages
of colour plates.
Published in association with Oxbow Books, members can purchase it at
a special price of £28 (plus postage and packing)*
(The usual retail price is £45.)
Order from Oxbow Books, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2EW, UK
Telephone: 01865 241249
Email: orders@oxbowbooks.com
Web: www.oxbow books.com
Books of interest to members may be found at http://www.cornucopia.net/bookspage.html
NEW
ARRANGEMENTS FOR ASTENE BOOKS 
Oxbow has moved
Oxbow who publish and distribute ASTENE's books and much else of interest
to members has moved from one side of Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford to the
other - and lower down! Their new address is 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford
OX1 2EW where they will continue to welcome visitors between 9 am and
5:30 pm. Their website is www.oxbowbooks.com.
Customers in America should order through The David Brown Book Company,
PO Box 511, Oakville CT 06779.
In December 2003 Oxbow Books took over
the distribution of ASTENE's existing books, previously available through
the Museum Bookshop. These are now in stock at Oxbow's showroom, and are
available in North America from Oxbow's US branch office, The David Brown
Book Company in Connecticut.
Oxbow books is a specialist mail order bookseller and distributor, and
books may be ordered by phone, mail, e-mail or through the internet.
Books can be sent speedily and economically to any part of the world,
and payment is accepted by credit card, cheque and wire transfer. Please
order from your nearest Oxbow office - contact details listed below.
Oxbow Books stocks a large number of titles on the cultures of Egypt and
the Near East, and about their re-discovery by later travellers. Free
catalogues are sent on request.
ASTENE members receive 15% discount on the lowest advertised price of
ASTENE books. Please remember to identify yourself as an ASTENE member
and claim your discount with your order.
Outside North America
10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford OX1 2EW,
Tel: 44 (0) 1865 241249; Fax: 44 (0) 1865 794449 E-mail: oxbow@oxbowbooks.com
website www.oxbowbooks.com
Within North America
The David Brown Book Company, PO Box 511
(28 Main Street) Oakville, CT 06779, USA.
Toll free tel: 800 791 9354; Tel: 860 945 0329;
Fax: 860 945 9468;
E-mail: david.brown.bk.co@snet.net
Travellers in the Near East
Edited
by Charles Foster
120 pages, soft bound, 156 x 234 mm portrait
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.
This is a publication generated from papers given in Edinburgh at the 4th ASTENE biennial conference in 2001.
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).
Travellers
in the Levant: Voyagers and Visionaries
Edited
by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff.
Illustrated, ISBN 0-9539700-1-9 Published April 2001.
Orientalists came to the Middle East with their own ideas and agendas. As we try to disentangle fact from fiction, the Middle East is explored from many perspectives, among them those of artists, novelists, archaeologists, tourists – and spies. Illustrated. £19.95 (£14.95 for ASTENE Members)
Desert
Travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence
Edited
by Janet Starkey and Okasha El Daly.
Illustrated, ISBN 0-9539700-0-0. Published December 2000.
Travellers in the deserts of the Middle East left a wealth of information on everything that caught their eye. From Herodotus, through medieval Arabic and European sources, to those of dare-devil travellers of the last 150 years, including James Bruce, William Eaton, Ameen Rihani and T.E. Lawrence, this book shows that close encounters in deserts can produce vivid images of an Oriental environment. Yet some travellers perhaps reveal more about themselves, through their experiences, than about the surrounding environment. Illustrated. £19.95 (£14.95 for ASTENE members).
Click here for contents of book
Also Available:
Travellers
in Egypt
edited by Paul and
Janet Starkey (London: I.B. Tauris,
1998). Based on papers from the 1995 Durham conference.
ISBN 1 86064 674 3. £14.95 (pb) March 2001.
Unfolding
the Orient
edited by Paul and
Janet Starkey (Reading: Ithaca, 2001). ISBN 0-86372-257-1. £35.00
Based on papers from the 1997 Oxford Conference. A fascinating miscellany, with papers on pilgrims, Middle Eastern dress worn by travellers, the Grand Tour, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and others from the period before Middle Eastern travel became commonplace. Illustrated.
Ithaca press: orders@garnet-ithaca.co.uk
http://www.garnet-ithaca.co.uk
Interpreting the Orient
edited by Paul and
Janet Starkey (Reading: Ithaca, 2001). ISBN 0-86372-258-X. £35.00.
Click here for contents
This book, also based on the 1997 Conference, continues the sequence of travellers in Unfolding the Orient, and develops a number of themes, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century travellers: painters, writers, adventurers and others. A fascinating volume in its own right. Illustrated.
Both of the above books were reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement (week beginning 23 July 2001) http://www.the-tls.co.uk. For a brief summary of the review click here.
Ithaca press: orders@garnet-ithaca.co.uk
http://www.garnet-ithaca.co.uk
Forthcoming highlight from Cambridge University Press
The Great Pyramid
ANCIENT EGYPT REVISTED
JOHN ROMER
- Was there really an ancient plan?
- How many people did it take to build?
- Exactly how long did it take?
From an internationally-known archaeologist and populariser of ancient
Egypt comes a unique and compelling account of exactly how the Great Pyramid
was designed and built. John Romer sweeps away centuries of myth and confusion,
placing this awesome monument in its genuine contemporary context.
'…a refreshing and distinctive approach based on sound scholarship and written in a style that often strikes a spark in the reader's imagination.'
Barry Kemp, Professor of Egyptology, University of Cambridge
Publication April 2007
GBP 25.00
Hardback 9780521871662
592 pages 92 line diagrams 102 half-tones 40 colour figures
Order your copy now!
Online: www.cambridge.org/romer
Email: directcustserve@cambridge.org
Tel: +44 (0)1223 326050
In
the Wake of the Dhow
The Arabian Gulf and Oman
Dionisius A. Agius
Ithaca, September 2002, 276pp, 235 x 155 mm, Cased £35.00, ISBN
0 86372 259 8,
Illustrated
The Arabian dhow, with its characteristic features, is one of the most evocative images of the Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Documenting the dhow as an important element in the prosperity of the area before the discovery of oil, we find in this book the geographical conditions and the historical-linguistical background of each dhow-type, the life-pattern in its role as cargo, pearl-diving, pirate and slaving vessel and also how the seafaring communities interacted with the dhow world.
Ithaca press: orders@garnet-ithaca.co.uk
http://www.garnet-ithaca.co.uk
BUDGIE
...The Life of Sir E.A.T.Wallis Budge,Egyptologist, Assyriologist and
Keeper of the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British
Museum, 1892–1924
by Robert Morrell
Born illegitimate in Bodmin, Cornwall, in 1857 to a member of a poor, working class family, Wallis Budge overcame all the obstacles he faced to eventually go from being a warehouse clerk with no prospects to the University of Cambridge and Christ's College at a time when there was little or no provision for working-class youths to obtain higher education, to become Keeper in the Department of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum and one of the best known British Egyptologists. The author of 150 books he travelled to Egypt and Mesopotamia during which he collected some of his department's greatest treasures, often using questionable means to get these out of Egypt and Iraq (or Assyria as it was then called). Yet for all his fame many mysteries surround his life and in this work an attempt is made to find answers to some of these, not least the identity of his father. It examines his often stormy conflicts with other scholars and his relations with women. Budge's life makes fascinating reading, and this work contains much hitherto unpublished material.
Privately published in an edition of 200 unnumbered copies, it has 75 pages, light card covers, is illustrated, fully referenced and indexed
Price: £5.66 (including postage).
USA: $22.50; EEC: €43
(USA & EEC include surface mail & bank conversion charge)
Order from: 43, Eugene Gardens, Nottingham, NG2 3LF (cheques should be made payable to R.W. Morrell
How
Many Miles to Babylon?
Travels and Adventures to
Egypt and Beyond, from 1300 to 1620
Anne Wolff
Liverpool University Press, HB 0-85323-658-5 £37.99, PB 0-85323-668-2
£11.50
Order from Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4YN (Tel: 01235 465500; Fax 01235 465555; email: direct.order@marston.co.uk P&P UK £3.50, Europe £3 surface/£4 air, Rest of World £8. Quote code 200303
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