Pious pilgrims, discerning travellers, curious tourists.

• Author: Starkey, Paul.
• TeilnehmendeR: Starkey, Janet.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the near East
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 408 pages); illustrations

This volume comprises a varied collection of seventeen papers presented at the biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) held in York in July 2019, which together will provide the reader with a fascinating introduction to travel in and to the Middle East over more than a thousand years.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Paul and Janet Starkey ; 1. Pilgrimage as Travel - Jacke Phillips ; 2. Ibn Jubayr's Riḥla Reconsidered - Paul Starkey ; 3. 'Gardens of Paradise' - Janet Starkey ; 4. 'Wady Ghrásheca': an unknown Christian site in Sir Gardner Wilkinson's unpublished manuscripts from the Eastern Desert - Jan Ciglenečki & Blaž Zabel ; 5. Exploring the Ottoman Empire: the travels of Peter Mundy (1597-c.1667) in Turkey 1617-1620 - Jennifer Scarce ; 6. With a radius most accurately divided into 10, 000 parts: John Greaves and his scientific survey of Egypt in 1638-1639 - Ronald E. Zitterkopf ; 7. Dimitrie Cantemir, the 'Orpheus of the Turkish Empire' (1673- 1723) - Cristina Erck ; 8. The Artist William Page (1794-1872) and his travels in Greece and western Turkey in the first half of the nineteenth century - Brian J. Taylor ; 9. Jacob Röser: a Bavarian physician travelling the Ottoman Empire in 1834-1835 - Joachim Gierlichs ; 10. Publishing with 'Modern Taste and Spirit' - Paulina Banas ; 11. 'Mr and Mrs Smith of England': a tour to Petra and east of Jordan in 1865 - David Kennedy ; 12. Anton Prokesch-Osten Jr (1837-1919) - Angela Blaschek ; 13. William Wing Loring, George Brinton McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant: American Civil War Generals in Egypt during the 1870s - Mladen Tomorad ; 14. Consular Agents and Foreign Travellers in Upper Egypt in the Nineteenth Century - Terence Walz ; 15. A Luxor Room with a View at Pagnon's Hotels - Sylvie Weens ; 16. Richard A. Bermann, the Desert and the Mahdi: an Austrian writer's fascination with Egypt and the Sudan - Ernst Czerny ; 17. Unlawful Acts and Supernatural Curses: the fictional traveller in Bram Stoker's The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) - Rebecca Bruce ; Notes on Contributors ; Index.