Knowledge is light travellers in the Near East

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…”