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 1 begins with Stephens' arrival at Alexandria in Egypt, and his journey down the Nile to the Cataracts; it ends with a visit to St Catherine's monastery in Sinai.
Product details
March 2015Paperback
9781108079242
334 pages
216 × 140 × 19 mm
0.43kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Preface to new edition
- 1. Alexandria
- 2. From Alexandria to Cairo
- 3. The slave-market at Cairo
- 4. Journey up the Nile
- 5. Sporting on the Nile
- 6. Small favours thankfully received
- 7. The temple of Dendera
- 8. The rock of the chain
- 9. Ascent of the cataracts
- 10. Thebes, its temples and great ruins
- 11. The Arabs and the pacha
- 12. A travelling artist and antiquary
- 13. A good word for the Arabs
- 14. The caravan
- 15. The aspect of the mountains
- 16. Ascent of Sinai
- 17. Diet of the monks.
