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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Oliver, Andrew (19..-.... ; historien d'art)
Titre(s) : American travelers on the Nile [Texte imprimé] : early U.S. visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839 / Andrew Oliver
Publication : Cairo ; New York : the American university in Cairo press, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXI-412 p.-[20] p. de pl.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. en fin d'ouvrage. Index
The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once
again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics
to Gottingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured
to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century
travellers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men
from East Coast cities, among them graduates of Harvard, Yale, and Columbia, travelling
to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known
as teenagers. Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously
neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book
offers a new look at the early American experience in Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean
world. More than thirty illustrations complement the stories told by the travellers
themselves
Sujet(s) : Voyageurs américains -- Égypte -- 18e siècle
Voyageurs américains -- Égypte -- 19e siècle
Voyageurs américains -- Moyen-Orient -- 18e siècle
Voyageurs américains -- Moyen-Orient -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789774166679 (rel). - ISBN 9774166671 (rel)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443652147
Notice n° :
FRBNF44365214
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