02968cam a2200337 i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003002000260007104000130009708200220011010000420013224500960017426400790027030000970034933600260044633600330047233700280050533800270053350400670056050507560062752009500138364800200233365000440235365000440239765000400244165000380248165100350251965100370255465500390259118656055OSt20240530110619.0150612s2014    ua abf   b    001 0 eng d  a9789774166679q(hbk.)  cEG-CaGPL04a916.2221bCC/O A1 aOliver, Andrew,cJr.,d1936-eauthor.10aAmerican travelers on the Nile :bearly U.S. visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839 /cAndrew Oliver. 1aCairo, Egypt ;aNew York :bThe American University in Cairo Press,c2014.  axxi, 412 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates :billustrations (chiefly color), map ;c24 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  astill imagebsti2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 319-383) and index.0 a1. Americans in Eighteenth-Century Egypt -- 2. Napoleon and the French Savants in Egypt -- 3. Mehmet Ali and His New Egypt -- 4. The American Navy and Trade in the Mediterranean -- 5. The European Presence in Egypt from 1815-1825 -- 6. Americans Return to Egypt --  7. American Missionaries on Tour -- 8. The Eastern Question -- 9. The Lure of Egypt -- 10. The US Naval Squadron: Egyptian Curios and Civilian Passengers -- 11. Keepers of Diaries: 1833 to 1835 -- 12. Traveling in Egypt -- 13. John L. Stephens and Fellow Tourists of the Mid-1830s -- 14. Steamship Travel -- 15. Professional Visitors -- 16. Mills, Giraffes, and Skulls (and Even the Telegraph) -- 17. Shall We Meet in Egypt? -- 18. Philip Rhinelander and His Friends -- 19. After 1839.8 aThe 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 Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early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. 7a1700-18992fast 0aTouristszEgyptxHistoryy18th century. 0aTouristszEgyptxHistoryy19th century. 7aTourists.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01153237 7aTravel.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01155558 0aEgyptxDescription and travel. 7aEgypt.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01208755 7aHistory.2fast0(OCoLC)fst01411628