Description: Further DetailsTitle: Interpreting the OrientCondition: NewSubtitle: Travellers in Egypt and the Near EastISBN-10: 086372258XEAN: 9780863722585ISBN: 9780863722585Publisher: Ithaca PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/10/2001Description: Egypt and the Near East have enchanted many people over the centuries. Travellers from the West have journeyed to this region for a variety of motives: in pursuit of knowledge, power, diplomacy and trade, for pleasure and adventure, on pilgrimage, and to plunder and discover the exotic - or sometimes simply to discover themselves. Some have been influenced more than others by what they saw, bringing back tangible evidence of their visits in the form of antiquities or other collectors' items; many have used their observations and experiences for their own literary and artistic ends. This collection of papers has its origin in the conference "Travellers to Egypt and the Near East" held at St Catherine's College, Oxford in July 1997. They are arranged approximately in chronological order - though with so many common themes running through them, a strict sequence according to a single criterion has proved almost impossible. In addition to the chronological sequence, the reader will detect a number of common themes - religion, gender, economics, colonialism, perceptions of literature and art and so forth that haunt the essays and form webs of interconnection between them.The papers included in this volume range from those on Carl Haag and Gertrude Bell to gender politics in a colonial context. These essays provide a fascinating array of perspectives on a set of historical, literary and cultural relationships about which debate is certain to continue well into the twenty-first century.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 235mmItem Length: 190mmContributor: Janet Starkey (Edited by), Paul Starkey (Edited by)Author: Janet StarkeyGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Durham Middle East Monographs S.Topic: Travel & TransportRelease Year: 2001 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Interpreting the Orient
Title: Interpreting the Orient
Subtitle: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East
ISBN-10: 086372258X
EAN: 9780863722585
ISBN: 9780863722585
Release Date: 04/10/2001
Release Year: 2001
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Contributor: Paul Starkey (Edited by)
Series: Durham Middle East Monographs S.
Book Title: Interpreting the Orient : Travellers in Egypt and the Near East
Number of Pages: 284 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Garnet Publishing, The Limited
Item Height: 1.1 in
Topic: Essays & Travelogues, Middle East / General
Publication Year: 2001
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Travel
Item Weight: 28 Oz
Item Length: 9.4 in
Author: Paul Starkey, Janet Starkey
Item Width: 6.3 in
Book Series: Durham Middle East Monographs S Ser.
Format: Hardcover
