Traveling through Sinai - From the Fourth to the Twenty-first Century

Sinai has long attracted travelers to its ancient caravan routes and haunting landscapes. From early Christian pilgrims to medieval merchants and nineteenth-century Europeans on the Grand Tour, visitors to Sinai have frequently left written accounts of their experiences in this historic peninsula. In this wide-ranging anthology, Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel-Hakim have collected dozens of accounts and observations from travelers who have written about Sinai, its people, its sights, and its historical and biblical landmarks. Starting with Egeria, a fourth-century Christian who relates her visit to Mt. Sinai and the Burning Bush, "Traveling Through Sinai" offers a diverse collection of voices over the centuries. Among them are the German friar Felix Fabri, who visited in 1492, and nineteenth-century antiquarian William Flinders Petrie, giving his impressions of the Bedouins of the peninsula. French novelist Alexandre Dumas writes of meeting two monks in the desert carrying a letter signed by Napoleon, while others describe crossing the canal at Suez, the ancient inscriptions of Wadi Mukattab, and the harrowing experiences of desert travel.

Product details

• Authors: Sahar Abdel-Hakim, Deborah Manley
• Assisted by: William Henry Bartlett (Illustration), Sahar Abdel-Hakim (Editor), Deborah Manley (Editor)
• Publisher: American university pr cairo
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2006
• EAN: 9789774160226
• ISBN: 978-977-416-022-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > World, Arctic, Antarctic