Download or read book Travellers in the Levant written by Sarah Searight and published by Astene. This book was released on 2001 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelling in the Eastern Mediterranean was a common activity for the more adventurous of North European scholars in the 18th and 19th Centuries and many of the papers in this book discuss the adventures of Colonel Leake, Sir William Gell, Edward Lear and Lady Hester Stanhope. However there are also interesting studies of less well known Muslim and Italian travellers. Contents: Colonel Leake traveller and scholar (Malcolm Wagstaff); William Martin Leake and the Greek Revival (Hugh Ferguson); Leake in Kythera (Davina Huxley); Straddling the Aegean: William Gell 1811-1813 (Charles Plouviez); The Anger of Lady Hester Stanhope (Norman Lewis); Jacob Jonas Bjornstahl and his Travels in Thessaly (Berit Wells); the level of contact between East and West: pilgrims and visitors to Jerusalem and Constantinople from the 9th to the 12th Centuries (Peter Frankopan); Muslim Travellers to Bilad al-Sham (Syria and Palestine) from the 13th to the 16th Centuries: Maghribi travel accounts (Yehoshu'a Frenkel); Italian travellers to the Levant: retracing the Bible in a world of Muslims and Jews, 1815-1914 (Barbara Codacci); The Norths in Syria, Egypt and Palestine, 1865-1866 (Brenda Moon); The Pilgrimage to Budding Tourism: the role of Thomas Cook in the rediscovery of the Holy Land (Ruth Kark); J F Lewis 1805-1876: mythology as biography (Emily Weeks); Edward Lear's Travels to the Holy Land: visits to Mount Sinai, Petra and Jerusalem (Hisham Khatib); Oriental novellas in the works of Gerard de Nerval, 1840s (Marianna Taymanova).

Download or read book The Boy Travellers in the Levant written by Thomas Wallace Knox and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1895 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A New Guide to the Levant for the Use of Travellers in Greece Egypt Palestine Syria and Asia Minor Etc written by T. H. Usborne and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Attitudes of European Travellers in the Levant 1696 1811 written by Christopher John Charles Thacker and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Travels in the Levant written by Pierre Belon and published by Hardinge Simpole Limited. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1546, Pierre Belon - already a naturalist of some renown - travelled to Constantinople in the entourage of the French Ambassador to Suleiman the Magnificent. En route, he visited Venice, Ragusa, Corfu and Crete, and over the next two years travelled throughout the Ottoman domains, - to Egypt, Anatolia, Arabia, and the Holy Land - returning to France in 1549. Wherever he went, Belon described plants, birds, mammals and fish, and recorded the customs of the inhabitants - what they ate, how they reared their children - collecting information on almost every aspect of the lands through which he passes. He did not rely on hearsay, on previous accounts, or on authority: what we have are his own observations, and the result of assiduous questioning and meticulous recording. His Observations, 'written in our ordinary French tongue', were published in 1553. In April 1564, Pierre Belon was murdered by persons unknown while crossing the Bois de Boulogne. Although Pierre Belon is well known as a naturalist, and - with his treatises on fish and birds - as a founder of comparative anatomy, his Observations have not previously appeared, in full, in English. Following a distinguished career as a civil servant, James Hogarth acquired a reputation as a versatile and punctilious translator. His translations span travel guides, archaeological texts, and novels. His 2002 translation of Victor Hugo's Travailleurs de la Mer was awarded the French-American Foundation Translation Prize. He died in 2006.

Download or read book A New Guide to the Levant for the Use of Travellers in Greece Egypt Palestine Syria and Asia Minor Also Comprizing the Overland Journey to India the Voyage from Suez to Bombay and the Systems of Dawk Travelling in the Three Presidencies written by T. H. USBORNE and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Levant Interpreter written by Anton Tien and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Atlantic Monthly Library of Travel In the Levant by C D Warner written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Johann Michael Wansleben s Travels in the Levant 1671 1674 written by Alastair Hamilton and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johann Michael Wansleben’s Travels in the Levant, 1671–1674 is a hitherto unpublished version of a remarkable description of Egypt and the Levant by the German scholar traveller Wansleben, or Vansleb (as he was known in France). He set out for the East in 1671 to collect manuscripts and antiquities for the French king and also produced the best study of the Copts to have appeared to date. This book recounts his travels in Syria, Turkey and Egypt, his everyday life in Cairo, and his anthropological and archeological discoveries which include the Graeco-Roman Ǧabbārī cemetery in Alexandria, the Roman city of Antinopolis on the Nile, the Coptic monastery of St Anthony on the Red Sea and the Red and White monasteries in Upper Egypt.

Download or read book Travels Or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant written by Thomas Shaw and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Embassy to Tamerlane written by Clavijo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-10-21 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering thousands of miles, Clavijo's epic journey began and ended in Cadiz taking in Rhodes, Constantinople, the Black Sea, and Central Asia.

Download or read book A New Guide to the Levant written by T. H. Usborne and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Levant written by Philip Mansel and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not so long ago, in certain cities on the shores of the eastern Mediterranean, Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and flourished side by side. What can the histories of these cities tell us? Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom—Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut—cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and nationalism flourished simultaneously. People freely switched identities and languages, released from the prisons of religion and nationality. Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived and worshipped as neighbors.Distinguished historian Philip Mansel is the first to recount the colorful, contradictory histories of Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut in the modern age. He begins in the early days of the French alliance with the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century and continues through the cities' mid-twentieth-century fates: Smyrna burned; Alexandria Egyptianized; Beirut lacerated by civil war.Mansel looks back to discern what these remarkable Levantine cities were like, how they differed from other cities, why they shone forth as cultural beacons. He also embarks on a quest: to discover whether, as often claimed, these cities were truly cosmopolitan, possessing the elixir of coexistence between Muslims, Christians, and Jews for which the world yearns. Or, below the glittering surface, were they volcanoes waiting to erupt, as the catastrophes of the twentieth century suggest? In the pages of the past, Mansel finds important messages for the fractured world of today.

Download or read book Early Voyages and Travels in the Levant written by James Theodore Bent and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rise of Oriental Travel written by G. Maclean and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-03-31 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows four Seventeenth-century Englishmen on their journeys around the Ottoman Empire while the British were, for the first time in history, becoming important players in the Mediterranean. This book shows that hostility between East and West is neither historical nor inevitable, but rather the result of selective memory.

Download or read book In the Levant written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Voyage into the Levant written by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-volume account, published in French in 1717 and translated in 1718, of a scientific voyage to the Black Sea.