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Every traveller needs a compass : travel and collecting in Egypt and the Near East / / edited by Neil Cooke and Vanessa Daubney



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Titolo: Every traveller needs a compass : travel and collecting in Egypt and the Near East / / edited by Neil Cooke and Vanessa Daubney Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford, [England] ; ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : ASTENE : , : Oxbow Books, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina: 916.204
Soggetto topico: Travelers - Egypt
Travelers - Middle East
Travelers' writings, European
Soggetto geografico: Egypt Description and travel Congresses
Middle East Description and travel Congresses
Egypt Antiquities Collectors and collecting Europe Congresses
Middle East Antiquities Collectors and collecting Europe Congresses
Persona (resp. second.): CookeNeil <1947->
DaubneyVanessa
Note generali: Includes index.
"Collection of papers from the ASTENE Conference held at Aston University, Birmingham, over the weekend of 12-15 July 2013."
Nota di contenuto: Introduction; 1 Sir John Young, High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands,and His Private Letter Book, 1856-57; 2 Edward Lear in Gozo, March 1866; 3 The Travels of G. A. Wallin and His Views on Western Influencein the Middle East; 4 The Relative Contributions of William John Bankes and Charles Barryto the Early Plans of Gerasa/Jerash (Jordan): Evidence from the Bankesand Barry Archives; 5 Jean-Jacques Rifaud's Lithographs - His Drawings of EgyptianArchaeology, Natural History, Manners and Customs; 6 Travelling Companions: Mohammed Ashgar,also known as John Bedair (1815-74).
7 An Innovative Antiquarian: Alexander Henry Rhind's Excavationsin Egypt and His Collection in the National Museums Scotland8 From the Kremlin's Walls to the Foot of the Pyramids:Early Muscovite Travellers in Egypt; 9 Hieroglyphs from the North: Newcastle's Early Travellers in Egyptand Their Correspondence with Jean-François Champollion; 10 Amalia Sola Nizzoli (1805-45/49), Archaeologist ante litteramin Egypt and the Origins of the Third Nizzoli Collection; 11 Artists and Painters in the 'German House' at Thebes, 1905-15
12 Raymond O'Shea and The Sand Kings of Oman as a Sourcefor Trucial Coast History13 Did the Elephants Ever Forget?; 14 The Admiral's Daughter; 15 A Swiss Egyptologist on Her Majesty's Service: Edouard Naville(1844-1926) in the Delta; 16 Ulrich Jasper Seetzen; 17 Every Traveller Needs a Compass; Index
Titolo autorizzato: Every traveller needs a compass  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-78570-102-9
1-78570-100-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828589103321
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Serie: ASTENE Publications