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Every Traveller Needs a Compass: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East
Vanessa Daubney Neil Cooke
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Description for Every Traveller Needs a Compass: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East
Paperback. Editor(s): Cooke, Neil; Daubney, Vanessa. Num Pages: 272 pages, 69 illustrations inc 39 colour. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; RGL; WTD; WTH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 160. .
A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who travelled to, from and within Egypt and the Near East, either singly or as a group, and explored, observed and recorded, or stayed for a short period of time to improve their health or simply to enjoy the experience.
While some travellers kept a diary or journal that has survived until today, others did not. Their travels have to be extracted from the wide range of manuscript sources that are thankfully retained in libraries and archives, or which still ... Read more
A varied and charming collection of 17 papers that bring something new about the people from many countries and backgrounds who travelled to, from and within Egypt and the Near East, either singly or as a group, and explored, observed and recorded, or stayed for a short period of time to improve their health or simply to enjoy the experience.
While some travellers kept a diary or journal that has survived until today, others did not. Their travels have to be extracted from the wide range of manuscript sources that are thankfully retained in libraries and archives, or which still ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxbow Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785700996
SKU
V9781785700996
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Reviews for Every Traveller Needs a Compass: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East
If you feel the need to broaden your horizons, this is the book for you to dip into. In a short review it is impossible to do justice to the impressive range of research represented by the seventeen papers which were presented at the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East conference held in 2013. ... Read more