Souvenirs and New Ideas.
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, ve...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Havertown : Oxbow Books,
2014
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Astene Publications
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| Schlagworte: | Tourism Europeans Souvenirs (Keepsakes) Tourism-Middle East-History Tourism-Egypt-History Souvenirs (Keepsakes)-Egypt-History Europeans-Travel-Middle East-History Souvenirs (Keepsakes)-Middle East-History Middle East-Antiquities-Collectors and collecting-Europe Egypt-Antiquities-Collectors and collecting-Europe |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (395 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | 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 to retain the memory of a foreign journey, in a series of essays that examine the collections of a variety of travellers, from intrepid female solo voyagers to European royalty. Their acquisitions included souvenirs ranging from Egyptian mummies and ancient artefacts, to paintings and sketches of places visited, to the raw material for books written at leisure, both scholarly and popular. In their desire to share with those at home some of what they had seen, these voyagers contributed to an understanding of societies little known at the time, and the stories of their travels continue to entrance. 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 Keimer -- Chapter 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. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (395 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781842177983 1842177982 9781842178157 1842178156 |