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Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece and the Near East
edited by Colin Adams and Jim Roy
This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient ...
Publisher's Price GB £40.00, Our Price GB £9.95

Knowledge is Light: Travellers in the Near East
edited by Katherine Salahi
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 the Arabic proverb states, is light. The travels which are the subjects of these nine papers continue to represent the work of The Association for ...
Paperback. Price GB £20.00

Who Travels Sees More: Artists, Architects and Archaeologists Discover Egypt and the Near East
edited by Diane Fortenberry
"Who lives sees much, who travels sees more". The Arab proverb is an appropriate title for this latest collection of essays published by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East on its tenth anniversary. The desire to see what lay beyond the familiar landscapes of home shaped the lives of all the travellers discussed here. Their backgrounds and training as artists of one sort or another mean that they responded to ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £45.00, Our Price GB £9.95

Egypt - Travel Sketches from the Orient: An Album of Lithographs by Karl Ludwig Libay, with Text from Alfred von Kremer
edited by Dusan Magdolen and Lucie Storchová
This is a modern edition of a richly illustrated travelogue of Austrian painter, Karl L Libay. He visited Egypt in the 1850s and there completed a remarkable set of aquarel paintings, later transposed into lithographs. The lithographs are accompanied with a text by a prominent Austrian scholar of that time, Alfred von Kremer, later the Austrian deputy in the powers' committee governing the Egyptian state debt in the late 1870s. The lively scenes ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Mediterranean Travels: Writing Self and Other from the Ancient World to the Contemporary Society
edited by Patrick Crowley, Noreen Humble, and Silvia Ross
Written by leading scholars in the field, this collection analyses the notion of travel writing as a genre, while tracing significant examples of Mediterranean travel writing that return us to Ancient Greece, to Medieval pilgrimages, to Venetians diplomatic missions, to an Egyptian's account of Paris in the nineteenth century, to French artistic journeys in North Africa and to contemporary narratives of privileged resettlement, death and ...
Hardback. Price GB £45.00

Prehistoric Monuments and Collections in Hungary
edited by Erzsébet Jerem and Zsolt Mester
This colourful but eminently scholarly book serves as an admirable guide to the prehistoric monuments, sites and museums of Hungary. It is packed full of maps, plans, photographs and reconstructions, alongside the descriptions of the sites, their history and excavation and how they fit into our picture of Hungary's rich prehistoric past. Instructions for getting to the sites, references, a detailed glossary and suggested itineraries complete the ...
Paperback. Price GB £35.00

Gjirokastra: The Essential Guide
edited by Felicity Booth and Elenita Roshi
At first sight Gjirokastra appears extravagantly fanciful - an oriental vision of towering stone mansions clinging to the sheer sides of the valley. Dominated by a mighty limestone fortress that thrusts forward to accost those who approach along the valley, the city takes your breath away.

Old Gjirokastra is one of the best preserved examples of an Ottoman-style town in the Balkans and was inscribed as an UNESCO World Heritage Site in ...
Paperback. Price GB £7.99

Magnesia on the Meander - an Archaeological Guide: The City of Artemis with the White Eyebrows
by Orhan Bingol
This guide to the site of Magnesia presents information on the first excavations as well as the author's 23 years of work here. Magnesia was hidden by silts for many years, and even being n a main trading route had not protected its agora, temples and civic buildings from being lost to the elements. This guide book presents this extraordinary site in lavish detail, with colour photographs throughout. Also available in German or Turkish 204p, ...
Paperback. Price GB £18.99

From Stonehenge to Samarkand: An Anthology of Archaeological Travel Writing
by Brian Fagan
Oxbow says: Beginning with Herodotus, Brian Fagan presents an anthology of writings from some of best known, most interesting and most adventurous antiquarian travel writers. The book traces the points at which people began to travel to unchartered territories, exploring new cultures, sites and monuments from ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Egypt and the Near East, to central Asia and South America. The thoughts, memories and musings of ...
Hardback. Price GB £19.99

Olympos: A Pirate's Town in Lycia
by Ebru Parman et al
A lavish archaeological guide to the site of Olympos, Turkey. Olympos was occupied from antiquity into the Byzantine era and is an attractive site, with nearby beach and azure-blue sea. The site is not the easiest to view, however, so a guidebook is a necessity. This book has been written by a number of experts who worked on the site's excavation, to bring it's splendours to a wider audience. 152p, col illus t/out (Archaeological Guides 4, ...
Paperback. Price GB £17.99