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A Ride In Egypt From Sioot To Luxor In 1879 - With Notes On The Present State And Ancient History Of The Nile Valley, And Some Account Of The Various Ways Of Making The Voyage Out And Home

by William John Loftie

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 In this 1879 book, Loftie gives details of visits to the famous sites, but, unusually, takes notice of the political state of Egypt, and is trenchant in some of his criticisms. He also goes off the beaten track, making excursions away from the river, rather than travelling only by boat.
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Persia And The Persian Question

by George Nathaniel Curzon

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 Later viceroy of India, George Curzon (1859â€"1925) published this highly regarded two-volume work on Persia in 1892, following his travels in the country. Convinced of the political importance of this region as a buffer against Russian influence, Curzon gives an overview of Persian history, society, geography and politics.
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Persia And The Persian Question

by George Nathaniel Curzon

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 Later viceroy of India, George Curzon (1859â€"1925) published this highly regarded two-volume work on Persia in 1892, following his travels in the country. Convinced of the political importance of this region as a buffer against Russian influence, Curzon gives an overview of Persian history, society, geography and politics.
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The Historical Geography Of The Holy Land - Especially In Relation To The History Of Israel And Of The Early Church

by George Adam Smith

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 This book by George Smith was immediately recognised on its publication in 1894 as a major work of scholarship. His detailed knowledge of the territory, together with his wide familiarity with the archaeological and historical background, gives the work authority; the readability of its style is enhanced by detailed maps.
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The City Of The Sultan, And Domestic Manners Of The Turks, In 1836

by Julia Pardoe

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 This two-volume work by Julia Pardoe (1804â€"62), published in 1837, arose from a visit to Turkey in 1835. Volume 2 describes Pardoe's travels in western Turkey and her return to Europe, giving a lively and observant account of life in the declining but still powerful Ottoman empire.
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The City Of The Sultan, And Domestic Manners Of The Turks, In 1836

by Julia Pardoe

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 This two-volume work by Julia Pardoe (1804â€"62), published in 1837, arose from a visit to Turkey in 1835. Volume 1 describes the inhabitants of Istanbul, both the Ottoman governing elite and the expatriate community, giving a lively and observant account of life in the declining but still powerful Ottoman empire.
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A Voyage Into The Levant - Perform'D By Command Of The Late French King

by Joseph Pitton De Tournefort

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 This two-volume work, published in French in 1717 and translated into English in 1718, recounts a journey undertaken in 1700 by botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656â€"1708) around the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Volume 2 traces the journey around the Black Sea and describes the voyage home.
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A Voyage Into The Levant - Perform'D By Command Of The Late French King

by Joseph Pitton De Tournefort

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 This illustrated two-volume work, published in French in 1717 and translated into English in 1718, recounts a journey undertaken in 1700 by botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656â€"1708) around the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Volume 1 begins with a biography of Tournefort, and ends in Constantinople.
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An Englishwoman In Angora

by Grace Ellison

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 Grace Ellison (d.1935) was a journalist with a passion for Turkish culture. In this partisan but fascinating 1923 book, she recounts her visit to Angora (Ankara), the new capital of the Turkish Republic, in the aftermath of the First World War and the dismemberment of the Ottoman empire.
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Treatise On The Comparative Geography Of Western Asia - Accompanied With An Atlas Of Maps

by James Rennell

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 Published posthumously in 1831, this two-volume work by James Rennell, the father of historical geography, surveys an area from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea. Volume 2 surveys the classical territories of Asia Minor, and considers the Roman road network of the area.
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Treatise On The Comparative Geography Of Western Asia - Accompanied With An Atlas Of Maps

by James Rennell

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 Published posthumously in 1831, this two-volume work by James Rennell, the father of historical geography, surveys an area from Egypt to the Danube and from the Aegean to the Caspian Sea. Volume 1 lays out his geographical findings, and begins to discuss the relations of modern to ancient sites.
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Voyage En Syrie Et En Egypte Pendant Les Annees 1783, 1784 Et 1785

by Constantin-Francois Volney

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 The French author and traveller Constantin-FranÃ§ois de Chasseboeuf (1757â€"1820) adopted the pen name Volney. In 1783â€"5, he spent time in Ottoman Egypt and the historical region of Syria. Reissued here is the revised and corrected French second edition of his account, which appeared in two volumes in 1787.
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The History Of The Temple Of Jerusalem - Translated From The Arabic Ms. Of The Imam Jalal-Addin Al Siuti

by Jalal Al-Dinh Al-Suyuti

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 This medieval Arabic history, ascribed to the Egyptian scholar Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (1445â€"1505), was translated by the orientalist James Reynolds (1805â€"66) and published in 1836. Containing rich descriptions of religious places in Jerusalem, it is a key source for the city's architectural and topographical history.
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Ludolph Von Suchem'S Description Of The Holy Land, And Of The Way Thither - Written In The Year A.D. 1350

by Ludolf Von Suchem

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 Very little is known about Ludolf von Suchem, who made a journey to the Holy Land in 1336â€"41 and later described his experiences in considerable detail. This English translation, by Aubrey Stewart (1844â€"1918), of Ludolf's Latin text was published in 1895.
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Adventures Of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw Of Mitrowitz - What He Saw In The Turkish Metropolis, Constantinople; Experienced In His Captivity; And After His Happy Return To His Country, Committed To Writing I

by Wenceslas Wratislaw

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 Published in 1862, this was the first translation into English of a major Czech prose work. It is the story of a Bohemian nobleman's journey to, imprisonment in, and return from Constantinople in the late sixteenth century. This translation proved popular and helped bring Czech literature to a wider audience.
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The Holy City - Or Historical And Topographical Notices Of Jerusalem With Some Account Of Its Antiquities And Of Its Present Condition

by George Williams; Illustration: W. F. Witts

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 This detailed and well-illustrated 1845 study of Jerusalem's topography and antiquities formed part of the contemporary debate around the location of Calvary, supporting the traditionalist argument against some Protestant calls for relocation. For this work, George Williams (1814â€"78) received a medal for literary merit from Prussia's Frederick William IV.
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Memoirs Of The Lady Hester Stanhope - As Related By Herself In Conversations With Her Physician

by Charles Lewis Meryon

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 Lady Hester Stanhope (1776â€"1839) was a remarkable woman who left England to travel to the Middle East in 1810. This three-volume work, first published in 1845, contains letters she sent to her personal physician and his memories of her. Volume 1 covers the period between 1823 and 1837.
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Unexplored Syria - Visits To The Libanus, The Tulul El Safa, The Anti-Libanus, The Northern Libanus, And The 'Alah

by Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt Drake e Sir Richard Francis Burton

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 Richard Francis Burton (1821â€"90) spent two years as consul of Damascus, giving him unprecedented access to some of Syria's most remote areas and local culture, politics and religion. Published in 1872 in collaboration with Charles Drake (1846â€"74), this is a frank two-volume account of a country's developing identity.
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An Englishwoman In A Turkish Harem

by Grace Ellison

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 Grace Ellison (d.1935) was a journalist and suffragette who travelled widely in Turkey. This book, first published in 1915, is her rich and evocative description of a stay in a nobleman's harem, contrasting the residents' cloistered yet opulent lifestyle with the relative freedoms of women in the West.
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Travels Of Lady Hester Stanhope - Forming The Completion Of Her Memoirs

by Charles Lewis Meryon

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 Adventurous and unconventional, Lady Hester Stanhope (1776â€"1839) left England to travel to the east in the early nineteenth century. This three-volume work, first published in 1846, was written by her physician Charles Meryon (1783â€"1877), who travelled with her for seven years before returning to England to complete his medical studies.
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Travels Of Lady Hester Stanhope - Forming The Completion Of Her Memoirs

by Charles Lewis Meryon

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 Adventurous and unconventional, Lady Hester Stanhope (1776â€"1839) left England to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. This three-volume work, first published in 1846, was written by her physician Charles Meryon (1783â€"1877), who travelled with her for seven years before returning to England to complete his medical studies.
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Travels In Assyria, Media, And Persia

by James Silk Buckingham

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 Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786â€"1855) published this two-volume work in 1829; the 1830 reprint is reissued here. It traces his journey from Baghdad to the Persian Gulf, from where he sailed for Bombay, and describes both the ancient sites and the modern inhabitants.
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How The Codex Was Found - A Narrative Of Two Visits To Sinai, From Mrs Lewis'S Journals 1892â€“1893

by Agnes Smith Lewis

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 Twin sisters Agnes Lewis (1843â€"1926) and Margaret Gibson (1843â€"1920) were pioneering biblical scholars and explorers with a command of Aramaic and Syriac. Gibson's 1893 narrative tells how her sister discovered a Syriac version of part of the Gospels at the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai.
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In The Shadow Of Sinai - A Story Of Travel And Research From 1895 To 1897

by Agnes Smith Lewis

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 Twin sisters Agnes Lewis (1843â€"1926) and Margaret Gibson (1843â€"1920) were pioneering biblical scholars and explorers. This 1898 account of their later journeys to the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai continues the story told in How the Codex was Found (1893), also available in this series.
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