Journeys Erased by Time: The Rediscovered Footprints of Travellers in Egypt and the Near East

Neil Cooke

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781789692402
• eBook ISBN: 9781789692419
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Travel
• Index: Social Sciences

Members of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE), founded in 1997, continue to research, hold international conferences, and publish books and essays in order to reveal the lives, journeys and achievements of these less well-known men and women who have made such a contribution to the present day historical and geographical knowledge of this region of the world and who have also given us a better understanding of its different peoples, languages and religions.

The men and women from the past who are written about in this volume are a mixture of the incredibly rich or the very poor, and yet they have one thing in common, the bravery to tackle an adventure into the unknown without the certainty they would ever return home to their families. Some took up the challenge as part of their job or to create a new business, one person travelled to learn how to create and manage a harem at his house in London, others had no choice because as captives in a military campaign they were forced to make journeys into Ottoman controlled lands not knowing exactly where they were, yet every day they were looking for an opportunity to escape and return to their homes, while hoping the next person they met would guide them towards the safest route.

Apart from being brave, many of these men and women travellers have something else in common: they and others they encountered have left a collective record describing their travels and their observations about all manner of things. It is these forgotten pioneers who first gathered the facts and details that now fill numerous modern guidebooks, inflight magazines and websites.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Previous volumes published from ASTENE Conferences
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents Page
• Introduction
• Neil Cooke
• Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela: a 12th Century Traveller to the Middle East
• George Husz from Rascinia in Slavonia:
• Samuel Atkins: His diary or journal for the years 1680-88
• More treasure hunting in Qurna – the ‘Amr Mosque
• Soldiering in Egypt
• The French House in Luxor: Living on top of a temple
• The notorious Emil Brugsch: ‘It is said that Brugsch Bey would sell the whole museum’.
• From Rags to Riches: the adventures of Victor Gustave Maunier in Egypt 1848-1868
• “Let’s have a beer at Gorff’s!”
• A suffragist in Palestine: Millicent Fawcett’s journeys in the 1920s
• A suffragist in Palestine: Millicent Fawcett’s journeys in the 1920s
• Anton Prokesch von Osten and his contribution to evolving Egyptology
• Anton Prokesch von Osten and his contribution to evolving Egyptology
• What the ‘Noble Traveller’ got up to in Thebes:
• What the ‘Noble Traveller’ got up to in Thebes:
• Americans on the river Nile in the 1874-1875 Season
• Americans on the river Nile in the 1874-1875 Season
• Sources of inspiration: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour
• Sources of inspiration: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour
• In the wake of a rake: Artist Francis Smith and the 6th Baron Baltimore
• In the wake of a rake: Artist Francis Smith and the 6th Baron Baltimore
• Everything I Want People to Know is in my Books:
• Everything I Want People to Know is in my Books:
• The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) Expedition to Moab
• The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) Expedition to Moab
• ‘Nothing great can be achieved except in the Orient’ said Napoleon Bonaparte
• ‘Nothing great can be achieved except in the Orient’ said Napoleon Bonaparte
• Index
• Back Cover