Souvenirs and new ideas : travel and collecting in Egypt and the Near East /

Early travellers to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Turkey and the Levant recorded and remembered their journeys by collecting or creating mementos of places they visited. This natural inclination took many guises, ranging from painting landscapes or, later, taking photographs to acquiring souvenirs, ve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fortenberry, Diane (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books ; The David Brown Book Company, [2013]
Temas:
Tourism > Middle East > History.
Tourism > Egypt > History.
Europeans > Travel > Middle East > History.
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) > Middle East > History.
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) > Egypt > History.
Souvenirs (Objets) > Égypte > Histoire.
TRAVEL > Asia > General.
HISTORY / Modern / General
Antiquities > Collectors and collecting
Europeans > Travel
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Tourism
Europäer
Reise
Reisender
Souvenir
Tourismus
Middle East > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting > Europe.
Egypt > Antiquities > Collectors and collecting > Europe.
Moyen-Orient > Antiquités > Collectionneurs et collections > Europe.
Égypte > Antiquités > Collectionneurs et collections > Europe.
Europe
Egypt
Middle East
Naher Osten
Ägypten
History
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  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Malta, the Lycian Marbles and the Tomb of the English Lady; Chapter 2: Elsa Sophia von Kamphoevener, Baroness of Fairy Tales; Chapter 3: Edward Libbey: An American Glass Magnate Collects in Egypt; Chapter 4: Seeking the Collectors: Çanakkale Jugs in UK Collections; Chapter 5: War and Peace and Travel and Writing: European Exploration in Egypt and the Sudan, 1798-1898; Chapter 6: An Irish Woman in Egypt: The Travels of Lady Harriet Kavanagh; Chapter 7: Jeremiah Colman: A Norfolk Traveller in Egypt
  • Chapter 8: A Thousand and One Books: The Early Travel Literature of Ludwig KeimerChapter 9: George Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia and the History of Meroe; Chapter 10: Fortunes of War: Egyptologists in Cairo during the Second World War; Chapter 11: Waynman Dixon: In the Shadow of the Needle; Chapter 12: Mrs William Grey and the Prince of Wales Coffins; Chapter 13: Sir Robert Ainslie, Domenico Sestini and Luigi Mayer: A Case of Who Went Where, with Whom and When; Chapter 14: John Madox: A Diligent Traveller and His Scattered Legacy; Index; Colour Plates

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