Lost and now found : explorers, diplomats and artists in Egypt and the near East /: explorers, diplomats and artists in Egypt and the near East. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Neil Cook and Vanessa Daubney.
• Editors: Cooke, Neil, 1947-; Daubney, Vanessa
• Other Names: Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East. Conference (2015) (Exeter, England) creator.
• Contents: Introduction (Neil Cooke); 1. The Diary of Max Weidenbach: Encounters with Scholars and Travellers during the Prussian Scientific Expedition to Egypt 1842–45 (Susanne Binder and Boyo G. Ockinga); 2. O Cymru i Wlad y Nîl: Teithwyr Cymreig yn yr Aifft From Wales to the Land of the Nile: Welsh Travellers in Egypt (Tessa T. Baber); 3. Jakov Šašel (Jacob Schaschel) and his travels to Egypt, Nubia and Africa 1853–54 (Mladen Tomorad); 4. Tycoons on the Nile: How American Millionaires brought Egypt to America (Susan Allen); 5. A Bostonian in Egypt at the Dawn of Photography (Andrew Oliver); 6. Edward Robinson, Eli Smith and Their Travels in Search of Biblical Geography (Susan Cohen); 7. The Boston Green Head: Tales of a much-travelled ancient Egyptian sculpture (Lawrence M. Berman); 8. Observations, Adventures and Scandals: East India Company Officers on the Red Sea and in the Syrian Desert 1776–81 (Janet Starkey); 9. An Artist Recovered from Anonymity: Antoine van der Steen – 'Un peintre du Bosphore', a Discoverer of the Midas Monument and Lieutenant-fireworker in the Bombay Artillery (Brian J. Taylor); 10. Edmond G. Reuter: A Life between Ancient Egypt and the Arts and Crafts Movement (Hélène Virenque); 11. Guilty or Innocent? The Buckingham vs. Bankes Libel Trial of 1826 (Don Boyer); 12. Thomas Legh of Lyme: Travels in Greece, and the First Encounters with the Temples of Nubia (Robert G. Morkot); 13. 'A Political Education': Lady Augusta Gregory in Egypt (Cathy McGlynn); 14. Wilde about Egypt: Sir William Wilde in Egypt (Emmet Jackson); 15. A French Traveller in the Levant: The Marquis Charles-Jean-Melchior de Vogüé (1829–1916), with reference to William Henry Waddington (1826–94) (Sheila McGuirk); 16. In Constantinople During the Crimean War (Peta Rée); 17. Joun Encounter: Alexander William Kinglake meets Lady Hester Stanhope (Paul Starkey); 18. 'A Mani Splendoured Thing' – or Fermor's Folly (John Chapman); Index.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : ASTENE and Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 916.204; Travelers -- Egypt -- History -- Congresses; Travelers -- Middle East -- History -- Congresses; Travelers' writings -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Egypt -- Description and travel -- History -- Congresses; Middle East -- Description and travel -- History -- Congresses; Egypt -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Congresses; Middle East -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Congresses
• Languages: French
• ISBNs: 9781784916282
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 27 2017).
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