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ASTENE
The Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East, established in 1997, encourages and promotes education and learning with particular reference to the history of travel and travellers in Egypt and the Near East. It brings together anyone interested in the subject, whether a professional academic or not, across a wide spectrum of nations and subject areas. Essentially, the Association acts as a focus for the collection of materials and information and contacts related to its object. In order to promote its aims, the Association holds conferences, seminars, exhibitions, lectures, and visits; it publishes papers, newsletters, books and journals; it initiates and encourages research.
Further information about the Association can be found on the ASTENE website
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Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers
edited by Paul Starkey and Nadia El Kholy
This is the final volume of three books containing papers rom the ASTENE conference at Cambridge in 1999. The theme of this title is the 18th and 19th Century European fascination with Egypt. This interest had begun during the Enlightenment and was fuelled by the invasion of Egypt by Napoleon in 1798. For many Europeans of this age, Egypt represented all the exoticism, sensuality and mystery of the Orient, and these nine papers (one of which is ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £19.95, Our Price GB £6.50
Travellers in the Levant: Voyagers and Visionaries
edited by Sarah Searight and Malcolm Wagstaff
Travelling in the Eastern Mediterranean was a common activity for the more adventurous of North European scholars in the 18th and 19th Centuries and many of the papers in this book discuss the adventures of Colonel Leake, Sir William Gell, Edward Lear and Lady Hester Stanhope. However there are also interesting studies of less well known Muslim and Italian travellers. Contents: Colonel Leake traveller and scholar (Malcolm Wagstaff); William ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £19.95, Our Price GB £6.50
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