British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century

Volume II: Travel Writing

General Introduction

Volume II Introduction

Part 1. Egypt as a Health Resort

1. Alexander Henry Rhind, Egypt: Its climate, character and resources as a winter resort (Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1856), pp. 1-9, 15-18, 80-8, 90-106, 113-8.

2. Lucie Duff Gordon, Lady Duff Gordon's Letters from Egypt, Revised ed. Edited by Janet Ross (London: Messers. MacMillan & Co, 1865; London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1902), pp. 24-6, 60-3, 109-12, 121-4, 278, 379-83.

3. Fleming Sandwith, Egypt as a Winter Resort (London: Kegan Paul, 1889), pp. v-vi, 1-8, 11.

4. Maggie Benson, Life and Letters of Maggie Benson, ed. A.C. Benson (London: John Murray, 1917), pp. 185-6, 198-201, 203-5.

Part 2. The Colonial Administration

5. Sophia Lane Poole, The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo, Vol 1 (London: Charles Knight & Co., 1844), pp. i, v-vi, 107-23, 206-18.

6. The Earl of Cromer, Modern Egypt (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1908), 1-8, 281-99, 388-95.

7. Edward Herbert Cecil, The Leisure of an Egyptian Official (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921), pp. iii-vi, xix, 11-22, 89-100, 115-30.

Part 3. Thomas Cook's Tourists

8. John Gardner Wilkinson, Hand-book for travellers in Egypt: including descriptions of the course of the Nile to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and Thebes, the overland transit to India, the peninsula of Mount Sinai, the oases, &c. (London: John Murray, 1847), pp. 1-7, 43-4.

9. Harriet Martineau, Eastern Life, Present and Past, Vol. 1 (London: Edward Moxon, 1848), pp. 80-9, 284-91.

10. Karl Baedeker, ed. Egypt. Handbook for Travellers: Lower Egypt, with the Fayûm and the Peninsula of Sinai (Leipsic: Karl Baedeker; London: Dulau & Co., 1878), pp. 1-29.

11. H. M. and N. Tirard, 'Down the Nile from Aboo-Simbel to Karnack', Sketches from a Nile Steamer for the Use of Travellers in Egypt (London: Kegan Paul, 1891), pp. 162-71.

12. Thomas Cook & Son, Cook's Tourists' Handbook for Egypt, the Nile and the Desert (London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1897), pp. iii-iv, 1-2, 4-22.

Part 4. Archaeologists as Travelers

13. Henry Salt, A Descriptive Poem with Notes by a Traveller (Alexandria: European Press, 1824), pp. 23-36.

14. W. M. Flinders Petrie, Ten Years' Digging in Egypt, 1881-1891 Second ed., revised (London: Religious Tract Society, 1893), 187-96.

15. Letters to the Egypt Exploration Fund

W.E. Kingsford to Emily Paterson, 12 November 1894, EES XI 1894-99, XId14;

Thos. Cook & Son to Emily Paterson, 16 February 1895, EES XI 1894-99, XId28

16. Letters to the Egypt Exploration Fund

David Hogarth to Herbert A. Grueber, 5 March 1895, EES XI 1894-99, Xid30

David Hogarth to Herbert A. Grueber, 24 March 1895, EES XI 1894-99, Xid30

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