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The Independent Arab Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 360
ISBN: 9781593336721
Pub Date: 10 Oct 2007
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
Description:
Part travelogue and part memoir, this account of Major Sir Hubert Young’s time spent in the Middle East in diplomatic and military roles provides a rare insider’s look at political developments in that part of the world. Sympathetic with the rich Arabic heritage of Mesopotamia, Arabia, and what is now Jordan and Syria, Young writes a lucid narrative spanning the time from his first involvement up to the Iraqi Mandate.
Travels in Turkey, Asia-Minor, Syria, and Across the Desert into Egypt Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 684
ISBN: 9781593337247
Pub Date: 02 Oct 2007
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
Description:
A historic travelogue with an eye toward the medical conditions encountered along the way, this rare book sheds light on western Asia from a unique vantage-point. Wittman describes his journey through Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Egypt, noting along the way the diseases suffered by the residents, and brings the world of ancient western Asia to life through his vivid writing.
Pero Tafur: Travels and Adventures 1435-1439 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781593335786
Pub Date: 30 Aug 2007
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
Description:
The remarkable narrative of the Medieval traveler Pero Tafur comes from a single manuscript written before the printing press was invented. Letts presents the journeys of Tafur through Europe and the Holy Land during the years 1435-1439 when the voyager was in his mid-twenties. A wealth of information about pre-modern Europe and Palestine await the reader of this account.
Persian Days Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 316
ISBN: 9781593336080
Pub Date: 28 Aug 2007
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
Description:
A fascinating travelogue through southern and central Iran, this early nineteenth-century account is written with wit and insight; the polymathic Copley Amory Jr. proves an able tour guide. The reader is taken from Tehran to Kerman and back, along a trail that highlights ancient sites of historical importance.
Who Travels Sees More Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9781842172735
Pub Date: 18 Jul 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: ASTENE Publications
Illustrations: 75 b/w illus, 16p col pls
Description:
"Who lives sees much, who travels sees more" . The Arab proverb is an appropriate title for this latest collection of essays published by the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East on its tenth anniversary. The desire to see what lay beyond the familiar landscapes of home shaped the lives of all the travellers discussed here.
Winters in Algeria Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781593335991
Pub Date: 17 Jul 2007
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
Description:
In the 1870s, American painter Frederick Bridgman traveled from his home in Paris to Algiers. Although he traveled to paint, his journeys so impressed him that he produced a written account that appeared in “Harpers Monthly.” That account became the basis of this book.
Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East Cover Travel, Geography and Culture in Ancient Greece, Egypt and the Near East Cover
Format: 
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781842172490
Pub Date: 11 Jul 2007
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Leicester Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9781785705502
Pub Date: 15 Dec 2016
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Leicester Nottingham Studies in Ancient Society
Description:
This collection of essays looks beyond the focus of existing works on ancient travel and its documentation, to examine its social and cultural implications. For travel (and the reasons behind it) offers a window on to many features of ancient societies - sense of place, perceptions of space, administration, relations with foreign powers, engagement with other cultures, and representation of homelands. Also of import is the study of ancient geographical knowledge, as well as ancient travel writing (an increasingly popular genre today), its popularity and purpose.
Adventures in Arabia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 384
ISBN: 9781593335977
Pub Date: 24 May 2007
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Historic Travels Archive
Description:
In this personal travelogue, William Seabrook chronicles his adventures in the Middle East in the early part of the twentieth century. Specifically he focuses on his time among four Arabic groups: the Bedouins, Druses, Dervishes, and Yezidees.

Travels and Discoveries in Palestine and Jordan

Travels and Discoveries in Palestine and Jordan

Format: 
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9781593334802
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2006
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Theological Archive
Pages: 704
ISBN: 9781593334819
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2006
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Theological Archive
Description:
This two-volume set gives a detailed and colorful account of Tristram's expeditions to examine the state of the Holy Land (Palestine and Jordan) during the second half of the nineteenth century. The first volume describes the historical land of Moab (Jordan), while the second volume covers the historical land of Israel (Palestine).

Travels and Discoveries in Palestine and Jordan

Travels and Discoveries in Palestine and Jordan

Format: 
Pages: 704
ISBN: 9781593334819
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2006
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Theological Archive
Pages: 456
ISBN: 9781593334802
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2006
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Theological Archive
Description:
This two-volume set gives a detailed and colorful account of Tristram's expeditions to examine the state of the Holy Land (Palestine and Jordan) during the second half of the nineteenth century. The first volume describes the historical land of Moab (Jordan), while the second volume covers the historical land of Israel (Palestine).
Egypt Travel Sketches from the Orient (Karl Ludwig Libay) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9788086277509
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2006
Illustrations: 95 col pls
Description:
This is a modern edition of a richly illustrated travelogue of Austrian painter, Karl L Libay. He visited Egypt in the 1850s and there completed a remarkable set of aquarel paintings, later transposed into lithographs. The lithographs are accompanied with a text by a prominent Austrian scholar of that time, Alfred von Kremer, later the Austrian deputy in the powers' committee governing the Egyptian state debt in the late 1870s.
RRP: £45.00
Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 228
ISBN: 9780813123882
Pub Date: 04 Aug 2006
Illustrations: photos, maps
Description:
The Himalaya inspire the notion of Shangri-la and are world renowned for their exquisite mountain scenery and the ancient cultures that tenaciously inhabit this harsh and sublime landscape. Home to all fourteen of the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and some of its deepest gorges, the region is a trove of biological and cultural diversity. A sweeping overview of the geography, economics, politics, and culture of this spectacular region, the Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya is the first full-color, comprehensive atlas of contemporary land and life in the Earth's highest mountains.

Eating as I Go

Scenes from America and Abroad
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780813191645
Pub Date: 21 Jul 2006
Illustrations: photos
Description:
What do we learn from eating? About ourselves? Others?
Women Travellers in the Near East Cover
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781842171615
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2005
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: ASTENE Publications
Description:
Contents: Introduction ( Sarah Searight ); Travelling to post: Lady Liston, an ambassadress in Constantinople ( Deborah Manley ); Two feisty ladies in the Levant: Princess Caroline and Lady Craven ( Charles Plouviez ); Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe: Miss Muir Mackenzie and Miss Irby ( Dorothy Anderson ); Three travellers in nineteenth-century Egypt: Sarah Belzoni, Amelia Edwards and Margaret Benson ( Megan Price ); Lucie Duff Gordon: a woman's perception of Egypt ( Sarah Searight ); Governess to the Grand Pasha of Egypt: Emmeline Lott ( Alix Wilkinson ); The unknown pilgrimage to Sinai ( Deborah Manley ); Archaeologists' wives as travel writers ( Elizabeth French ); Women's perceptions of, and perceptions of women in, Egypt's Eastern desert ( Janet Starkey ).
Under the Syrian Sun Cover Under the Syrian Sun Cover
Format: 
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9781593331405
Pub Date: 25 Aug 2004
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9781593331412
Pub Date: 25 Aug 2004
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Under the Syrian Sun is a fascinating travelogue of a journey to Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine during the nineteenth century, by a woman writer, A. Cunnick Inchbold. The two volumes include illustrations by the watercolorist Stanley Inchbold (born in London in 1856).
Under the Syrian Sun Cover Under the Syrian Sun Cover
Format: 
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9781593331412
Pub Date: 25 Aug 2004
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Pages: 324
ISBN: 9781593331405
Pub Date: 25 Aug 2004
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
Under the Syrian Sun is a fascinating travelogue of a journey to Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine during the nineteenth century, by a woman writer, A. Cunnick Inchbold. The two volumes include illustrations by the watercolorist Stanley Inchbold (born in London in 1856).