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Journeys Erased by Time: The Rediscovered Footprints of Travellers in Egypt and the Near East (Publications of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East)
by: Neil Cooke (Editor)
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
Publication Date: 2019-07-31
Language: English
Print Length: 370 pages
ISBN-10: 1789692407
ISBN-13: 9781789692402
Book Description
Members of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE), founded in 1997, continue to research, hold international conferences, and publish books and essays in order to reveal the lives, journeys and achievements of these less well-known men and women who have made such a contribution to the present day historical and geographical knowledge of this region of the world and who have also given us a better understanding of its different peoples, languages and religions. The men and women from the past who are written about in this volume are a mixture of the incredibly rich or the very poor, and yet they have one thing in common, the bravery to tackle an adventure into the unknown without the certainty they would ever return home to their families. Some took up the challenge as part of their job or to create a new business, one person travelled to learn how to create and manage a harem at his house in London, others had no choice because as captives in a military campaign they were forced to make journeys into Ottoman controlled lands not knowing exactly where they were, yet every day they were looking for an opportunity to escape and return to their homes, while hoping the next person they met would guide them towards the safest route. Apart from being brave, many of these men and women travellers have something else in common: they and others they encountered have left a collective record describing their travels and their observations about all manner of things. It is these forgotten pioneers who first gathered the facts and details that now fill numerous modern guidebooks, inflight magazines and websites.Table of ContentsIntroduction – by Neil Cooke 1: Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela: a 12th-Century Traveller to the Middle East – by Paul Starkey 2: George Husz from Rascinia in Slavonia: a Croatian traveller and his voyage around the Orient between 1532 and 1541 – by Mladen Tomorad 3: Samuel Atkins: His diary or journal for the years 1680-88 – by Hakan Yazar 4: More treasure hunting in Qurna – the ‘Amr Mosque – by Caroline Simpson 5: Soldiering in Egypt – by Sarah Shepherd 6: The French House in Luxor: Living on top of a temple – by Hélène Virenque and Sylvie Weens 7: The notorious Emil Brugsch: ‘It is said that Brugsch Bey would sell the whole museum.’ – by Heicke Schmidt 8: From Rags to Riches: the adventures of Victor Gustave Maunier in Egypt 1848-1868 – by Sylvie Weens 9: “Let’s have a beer at Gorff’s!” – by Isolde Lehnert 10: A suffragist in Palestine: Millicent Fawcett’s journeys in the 1920s – by Lucy Pollard 11: Anton Prokesch von Osten and his contribution to evolving Egyptology – by Ernst Czerny 12: What the ‘Noble Traveller’ got up to in Thebes: Lord Belmore’s ‘Herculean undertaking’ in TT 148 – by Boyo G. Ockinga 13: Americans on the river Nile in the 1874-1875 Season – by Andrew Oliver 14: Sources of inspiration: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour and other artist-travellers in Ottoman Lands – by Janet Starkey 15: In the wake of a rake: Artist Francis Smith and the 6th Baron Baltimore – by Brian J. Taylor 16: Everything I Want People to Know is in my Books: Leo Tregenza’s Journeys in the Eastern Desert – by Ronald E. Zitterkopf 17: The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) Expedition to Moab in 1872 – Ginsburg and Tristram: an old academic quarrel? – by David Kennedy 18: ‘Nothing great can be achieved except in the Orient’ said Napoleon Bonaparte – by Heba Sheta Index
Editorial Reviews
Members of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE), founded in 1997, continue to research, hold international conferences, and publish books and essays in order to reveal the lives, journeys and achievements of these less well-known men and women who have made such a contribution to the present day historical and geographical knowledge of this region of the world and who have also given us a better understanding of its different peoples, languages and religions. The men and women from the past who are written about in this volume are a mixture of the incredibly rich or the very poor, and yet they have one thing in common, the bravery to tackle an adventure into the unknown without the certainty they would ever return home to their families. Some took up the challenge as part of their job or to create a new business, one person travelled to learn how to create and manage a harem at his house in London, others had no choice because as captives in a military campaign they were forced to make journeys into Ottoman controlled lands not knowing exactly where they were, yet every day they were looking for an opportunity to escape and return to their homes, while hoping the next person they met would guide them towards the safest route. Apart from being brave, many of these men and women travellers have something else in common: they and others they encountered have left a collective record describing their travels and their observations about all manner of things. It is these forgotten pioneers who first gathered the facts and details that now fill numerous modern guidebooks, inflight magazines and websites.Table of ContentsIntroduction – by Neil Cooke 1: Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela: a 12th-Century Traveller to the Middle East – by Paul Starkey 2: George Husz from Rascinia in Slavonia: a Croatian traveller and his voyage around the Orient between 1532 and 1541 – by Mladen Tomorad 3: Samuel Atkins: His diary or journal for the years 1680-88 – by Hakan Yazar 4: More treasure hunting in Qurna – the ‘Amr Mosque – by Caroline Simpson 5: Soldiering in Egypt – by Sarah Shepherd 6: The French House in Luxor: Living on top of a temple – by Hélène Virenque and Sylvie Weens 7: The notorious Emil Brugsch: ‘It is said that Brugsch Bey would sell the whole museum.’ – by Heicke Schmidt 8: From Rags to Riches: the adventures of Victor Gustave Maunier in Egypt 1848-1868 – by Sylvie Weens 9: “Let’s have a beer at Gorff’s!” – by Isolde Lehnert 10: A suffragist in Palestine: Millicent Fawcett’s journeys in the 1920s – by Lucy Pollard 11: Anton Prokesch von Osten and his contribution to evolving Egyptology – by Ernst Czerny 12: What the ‘Noble Traveller’ got up to in Thebes: Lord Belmore’s ‘Herculean undertaking’ in TT 148 – by Boyo G. Ockinga 13: Americans on the river Nile in the 1874-1875 Season – by Andrew Oliver 14: Sources of inspiration: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour and other artist-travellers in Ottoman Lands – by Janet Starkey 15: In the wake of a rake: Artist Francis Smith and the 6th Baron Baltimore – by Brian J. Taylor 16: Everything I Want People to Know is in my Books: Leo Tregenza’s Journeys in the Eastern Desert – by Ronald E. Zitterkopf 17: The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) Expedition to Moab in 1872 – Ginsburg and Tristram: an old academic quarrel? – by David Kennedy 18: ‘Nothing great can be achieved except in the Orient’ said Napoleon Bonaparte – by Heba Sheta Index
