Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land
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GBPThe American writer and diplomat John Lloyd Stephens (1805–52) was effectively the founder of Mesoamerican archaeology, through his rediscovery of the Mayan civilization (his two-volume Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan is also reissued in this series). But before that, having qualified and practised as a lawyer in New York, he went on a two-year journey through Egypt and the Near East, publishing an account of his experiences in 1837 (under the name of George Stephens): this reissue is of the expanded 1838 edition. The work was extremely popular, possibly because, as he states in the preface, Stephens writes 'without perplexing himself with any deep speculations upon the rise and fall of empires', nor does he give much archaeological detail. Volume 2 sees Stephens heading towards Aqaba, whence he moves northward, visiting Petra, Gaza, Hebron, Jerusalem and the Dead Sea before returning to the coast at Tyre and sailing back to Alexandria.
Product details
March 2015Paperback
9781108079259
376 pages
216 × 140 × 21 mm
0.48kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. The caravan
- 2. Evening amusements
- 3. Prophecy and fulfilment
- 4. Petra
- 5. A bold endeavour
- 6. Valley of El Ghor
- 7. The road to Gaza
- 8. Approach to Hebron
- 9. An Arnaout
- 10. The tomb of Rachel
- 11. Church of the Holy Sepulchre
- 12. The field of blood
- 13. The synagogue
- 14. Desert of St John
- 15. The River Jordan
- 16. Convent of Santa Saba
- 17. Pilgrimage to the Jordan
- 18. Sebaste
- 19. A ride on donkey-back
- 20. St Jean d'Acre
- Note.
