Women Travellers in the Near East

List of contents

Introduction (Sarah Searight); Travelling to post: Lady Liston, an ambassadress in Constantinople (Deborah Manley); Two feisty ladies in the Levant: Princess Caroline and Lady Craven (Charles Plouviez); Travels in the Slavonic provinces of Turkey-in-Europe: Miss Muir Mackenzie and Miss Irby (Dorothy Anderson); Three travellers in nineteenth-century Egypt: Sarah Belzoni, Amelia Edwards and Margaret Benson (Megan Price); Lucie Duff Gordon: A woman's perception of Egypt (Sarah Searight); Governess to the Grand Pasha of Egypt: Emmeline Lott (Alix Wilkinson); The unknown pilgrimage to Sinai (Deborah Manley); Archaeologists' wives as travel writers (Elizabeth French); Women's perceptions of, and perceptions of women, in Egypt's Eastern desert (Janet Starkey).

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edited by Sarah Searight

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Searight
• Assisted by: Sarah Searight (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxbow Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2005
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 242 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 109 g
• Series: Astene Publications
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity