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Title Souvenirs and new ideas : travel and collecting in Egypt and the Near East / edited by Diane Fortenberry
Published Oxford : Oxbow Books ; Oakville, CT : The David Brown Book Company, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 196 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Malta, the Lycian Marbles and the Tomb of the English Lady; Chapter 2: Elsa Sophia von Kamphoevener, Baroness of Fairy Tales; Chapter 3: Edward Libbey: An American Glass Magnate Collects in Egypt; Chapter 4: Seeking the Collectors: Çanakkale Jugs in UK Collections; Chapter 5: War and Peace and Travel and Writing: European Exploration in Egypt and the Sudan, 1798-1898; Chapter 6: An Irish Woman in Egypt: The Travels of Lady Harriet Kavanagh; Chapter 7: Jeremiah Colman: A Norfolk Traveller in Egypt
Chapter 8: A Thousand and One Books: The Early Travel Literature of Ludwig KeimerChapter 9: George Hoskins, Travels in Ethiopia and the History of Meroe; Chapter 10: Fortunes of War: Egyptologists in Cairo during the Second World War; Chapter 11: Waynman Dixon: In the Shadow of the Needle; Chapter 12: Mrs William Grey and the Prince of Wales Coffins; Chapter 13: Sir Robert Ainslie, Domenico Sestini and Luigi Mayer: A Case of Who Went Where, with Whom and When; Chapter 14: John Madox: A Diligent Traveller and His Scattered Legacy; Index; Colour Plates
Summary Early travellers to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Turkey and the Levant recorded and remembered their journeys by collecting or creating mementos of places they visited. This natural inclination took many guises, ranging from painting landscapes or, later, taking photographs to acquiring souvenirs, very often antiquities. The collection of antiquities, a controversial and usually illegal practice today, was in the 18th and 19th centuries not necessarily either, and many privately assembled collections now form the basis of major national museums. Souvenirs and New Ideas explores the human desire
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 14, 2022)
Subject Tourism -- Middle East -- History
Tourism -- Egypt -- History
Europeans -- Travel -- Middle East -- History
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Middle East -- History
Souvenirs (Keepsakes) -- Egypt -- History
TRAVEL -- Asia -- General.
HISTORY / Modern / General
Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting
Europeans -- Travel
Souvenirs (Keepsakes)
Tourism
Europäer
Reise
Reisender
Souvenir
Tourismus
SUBJECT Middle East -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe
Egypt -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting -- Europe
Subject Europe
Egypt
Middle East
Naher Osten
Ägypten
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Fortenberry, Diane, editor.
LC no. 2013022307
ISBN 9781842177983
1842177982
9781842178003
1842178008