Travellers to the Middle East, from Burckhardt to Thesiger
Subtitle: an anthology
By: edited by Geoffrey Nash.
Contributors: Nash, Geoffrey.
Publisher: New York, NY; Anthem Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781843317920
Subjects: British -- Travel -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century; British -- Travel -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century; Travelers -- Middle East -- Biography; Travelers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Travelers' writings, British; Middle East -- Description and travel; Middle East -- Social life and customs; Middle East -- Colonization; Great Britain -- Relations -- Middle East; Middle East -- Relations -- Great Britain
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The coming of empire, 1800-1879; title: David Urquhart : spirit of the East; title: Alexander Kinglake : Eothen; title: Eliot Warburton : the crescent and the rose; title: Harriet Martineau : Eastern life, present and past; title: Robert Curzon : visits to monasteries of the Levant; title: Lucie Duff Gordon : letters from Egypt; title: John Lewis Burckhardt : travels in Arabia; title: J.R. Wellsted : travels in Arabia; title: Richard Burton : personal narrative of a pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah; title: W.G. Palgrave : narrative of a year's journey to central and eastern Arabia; title: Lady Anne Blunt : a pilgrimage to Nejd; title: Charles Doughty : travels in Arabia Deserta; title: James Morier : a journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor; title: John Malcolm : sketches of Persia; title: James Baillie Fraser : travels in the Persian provinces of the Caspian; title: Lady Sheil : glimpses of life and manners in Persia; title: Arminius Vambery : travels in Central Asia; title: Austen Henry Layard : early adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia.; title: pt. 2. Colonialism and resistance, 1880-1950; title: D.G. Hogarth : a wandering scholar in the Levant; title: Mark Sykes : Dar-ul-Islam; title: Charles Roden Buxton : Turkey in revolution; title: Grace Ellison : an Englishwoman in a Turkish harem; title: C.S. Jarvis : three deserts; title: Thomas Hodgkin : letters from Palestine, 1932-1936; title: Percy Cox : "Some excursions in Oman"; title: T.E. Lawrence : revolt in the desert; title: Ameen Rihani : Ibn Sa'oud : his people and his land; title: Freya Stark : the southern gates of Arabia; title: Bertram Thomas : Arabia felix; title: Wilfred Thesiger : Arabian sands; title: George Nathaniel Curzon : Persia and the Persian question; title: E.G. Browne : a year amongst the Persians; title: Gertrude Bell : Persian letters; title: Valentine Chirol : the Middle East question; title: Robert Byron : the road to Oxiana; title: Ella Maillart : the cruel way.