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Saddling the Dogs: Journeys Through Egypt and the Near East

edited by Diane Fortenberry and Deborah Manley

The majority of the papers collected here were delivered at ASTENE's VII Biennial Conference, held at the University of Southampton in July 2007. They cover a range of journeys in Egypt, Greece and east as far as Persia and are linked by the light they shed on the experience of travel in these regions from the 17th to the early 20th century. It is not so much what was seen that is assessed here but how one got there and how one got around once arrived; the vicissitudes and travails, both expected and strange, that characterized the passage.

The purpose of the trips examined range from religious pilgrimages to diplomatic, commercial and military journeys, to middle-class package tours. Each of them is of interest for what it reveals about the realities of travel in Egypt, the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East at different times: the means by which travel was carried out, the dangers and discomforts encountered and the preparations made. 181p (Oxbow Books in association with ASTENE 2009)

Review Quote

"The papers do an admirable job of bringing the reader into the worlds of these travelers, carefully tracing their steps and reproducing their itineraries, their reflections on the journeys, and the details of their travels... works well as an introduction to the general reader of the varieties of travel accounts."

Naghmeh Sohrabi
Journeys, vol 11, No. 2 (2010)

Table of Contents

Introduction (Diane Fortenberry and Deborah Manley)
Death and Disorder in Muhammad Sadiq's Star o the Hajj: Steamships, Quarantine and their Impact on the Muslim Body )
Modern Pilgrims in Egypt and the Holy Land: A Case Study (Hana Navratilova)
Facing Travels, Shaping Worlds: Three 17th-century Mesopotamian Travel Accounts (Bart Ooghe)
From Baghdad to Constantinople on Horseback: A Journey by Claudius and Mary Rich, October-December 1813 (Margaret Oliphant)
Pascal Coste and Eugene Flandin: Voyage en Perse (Caroline Williams)
Khalil Aga: A lost American on the Nile (Cassandra Vivian)
An American Touristin 1839: Philip Rhinelander Visits the Mediterranean (Andrew Oliver)
'The Contagion followed, and vanquish'd them': Plague, Travellers and Lazarettos (Janet Starkey)
The 6th Earl of Hopetoun Preparres for the Nile (Brenda Moon)
The Tedious Camel (Peta Ree)
Travel Clubs in the Era of the First Czechoslovak Republic (Adela Junova Mackova)

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