Knowledge is light travellers in the Near East

For thousands of years travellers wandered to, and spread out through, Egypt and the Near East, seeking trade, adventure and knowledge. For centuries travellers to - and from - the Near East carried knowledge with them and then carried home the new knowledge acquired in the region. And knowledge, as...

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Other Authors: Salahi, Katherine (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Owbow Books 2011
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Table of Contents:
  • John Covel : a Levant Company chaplain at Constantinople in the Saved from pirates / Peta Ree
  • Willey Reveley and the Greek revival : a journey through Italy, Egypt, and Greece in the years 1785 and 1786 / Paricia Usick
  • James Rennell and his scientific world of observation / Janet Starkey
  • A journey through the Hold Land, 1820 / Deborah Manley
  • Death and resurrection : the Renans in Syria (1860-61) / Geoffrey Nash
  • Theodore Ralli's diary on his travel to Athos (1885) / Maria-Mirka Palioura
  • Men in skirts and how to become frank / John Chapman