Saddling the dogs : journeys through Egypt and the Near East / edited by Diane Fortenberry and Deborah Manley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East, Content Provider.

Fortenberry, Diane, editor.

Manley, Deborah, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Egypt--Description and travel.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; Oakville, Connecticut : Astene : Oxbow Books, [2009]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the absence of horses, saddle the dogs. This Arab proverb, suggesting the uncompromising determination of nomads to keep moving, whatever the obstacles, epitomizes also the travelling ethos of many early visitors to the 'exotic East'. The journeys examined here are linked by the light they shed on the experience of travel in Egypt, Greece and the Ottoman Balkans, and the Near East from the 17th to the early 20th century not so much what was seen as how one got there and how one got around once arrived; the vicissitudes and travails, both expected and strange that characterised the passage.

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Death and Disorder in Muhammad Sadiq's Star of the Hajj: Steamships, Quarantine and their Impact on the Muslim Body; Modern Pilgrims in Egypt and the Holy Land: A Case Study; Facing Travels, Shaping Worlds: Three 17th-century Mesopotamian Travel Accounts; From Baghdad to Constantinople on Horseback: A Journey by Claudius and Mary Rich, October-December 1813; Pascal Coste and Eugène Flandin: Voyage en Perse; Khalil Aga: A Lost American on the Nile; An American Tourist in 1839: Philip Rhinelander Visits the Mediterranean

'The Contagion followed, and vanquish'd them': Plague, Travellers and LazarettosThe 6th Earl of Hopetoun Prepares for the Nile; The Tedious Camel; Travel Clubs in the Era of the First Czechoslovak Republic; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781782973485

1782973486

9781782973461

178297346X