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American Travelers on the Nile

- Early US Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839
Af: Andrew Oliver Engelsk Hardback

American Travelers on the Nile

- Early US Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839
Af: Andrew Oliver Engelsk Hardback
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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 Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, 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, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York.
Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early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 travelers themselves.

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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 Göttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, 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, traveling to the lands of the Bible and of the Greek and Latin authors they had first known as teenagers. Naval officers off ships of the Mediterranean squadron visited Cairo to see the pyramids. Two groups went on business, one importing steam-powered rice and cotton mills from New York, the other exporting giraffes from the Kalahari Desert for wild animal shows in New York.
Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early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 travelers themselves.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 432
ISBN-13: 9789774166679
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 9774166671
Kategori: Afrikansk historie
Udg. Dato: 19 apr 2015
Længde: 36mm
Bredde: 241mm
Højde: 163mm
Forlag: The American University in Cairo Press
Oplagsdato: 19 apr 2015
Forfatter(e): Andrew Oliver
Forfatter(e) Andrew Oliver

Kategori Afrikansk historie

ISBN-13 9789774166679

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 432

Udgave

Længde 36mm

Bredde 241mm

Højde 163mm

Udg. Dato 19 apr 2015

Oplagsdato 19 apr 2015

Forlag The American University in Cairo Press

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