Travellers to the Middle East from Burckhardt to Thesiger (eBook, PDF)

An Anthology
Redaktion: Nash, Geoffrey P.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

'Travellers to the Middle East from Burkhardt to Thesiger' is a compendious anthology of travellers' writings produced during the high tide of Britain's involvement in the Middle East. The anthology contains extracts from many of the canonical travel texts of the period, including passages by T. E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell and Robert Byron, as well as many more extracts from both female and male writers. The anthology is also enlivened by the broad geographical span covered, including descriptions of territories in the Ottoman Empire, Egypt, Arabia and Persia.

Geoffrey Nash's introduction, notes and background material provide specialist historical analysis and biographical information informed by critical and theoretical perspectives relevant to the genre of travel writing. This anthology will satisfy the growing interest in the study of travel writing, in addition to offering the general reader valuable insights into British perceptions of the Middle East.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857288783
• Artikelnr.: 44457413

Autorenporträt

Edited by Geoffrey P. Nash

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
David Urquhart: Spirit of the East
Alexander Kinglake: Eothen
Eliot Warburton: The Crescent and the Rose
Harriet Martineau: Eastern Life, Present and Past
Robert Curzon: Visits to Monasteries of the Levant
Lucie Duff Gordon: Letters from Egypt
John Lewis Burckhardt: Travels in Arabia
J. R.Wellsted: Travels in Arabia
Richard Burton: Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
W.G. Palgrave: Narrative of a Year’s Journey to Central and Eastern Arabia
Lady Anne Blunt: A Pilgrimage to Nejd
Charles Doughty: Travels in Arabia Deserta
James Morier: A Journey through Persia, Armenia and Asia Minor
John Malcolm: Sketches of Persia
James Baillie Fraser: Travels in the Persian Provinces of the Caspian
Lady Sheil: Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
Arminius Vambery: Travels in Central Asia
Austen Henry Layard: Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana and Babylonia
D. G. Hogarth: A Wandering Scholar in the Levant
Mark Sykes: Dar-ul-Islam
Charles Roden Buxton: Turkey in Revolution
Grace Ellison: An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem
C. S. Jarvis: Three Deserts
Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Palestine, 1932-1936
Percy Cox: Some Excursions in Oman
T. E. Lawrence: Revolt in the Desert
Ameen Rihani: Ibn Sa’oud: His People and His Land
Freya Stark: The Southern Gates of Arabia
Bertram Thomas: Arabia Felix
Wilfred Thesiger: Arabian Sands
George Nathaniel Curzon: Persia and the Persian Question
E.G. Browne: A Year Amongst the Persians
Gertrude Bell: Persian Letters
Valentine Chirol: The Middle East Question
Robert Byron: The Road to Oxiana
Ella Maillart: The Cruel Way