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American Travelers on the Nile: Early Us Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839
Contributor(s): Oliver, Andrew (Author)

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ISBN: 9774166671     ISBN-13: 9789774166679
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Travel | Middle East - Egypt
- Travel | Essays & Travelogues
- History | Middle East - Egypt (see Also Ancient - Egypt)
Dewey: 916
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" L (1.95 lbs) 424 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Middle East
- Cultural Region - African
Features: Illustrated
 
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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 Drawing on unpublished letters and diaries together with previously neglected newspaper accounts, as well as a handful of published accounts, this book offers a new look at the early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.

Contributor Bio(s): Oliver, Andrew: - Andrew Oliver is a retired art historian and museum administrator living in Washington, DC. With degrees from Harvard College and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, he was director of the Museum Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency in Washington, from 1982 to 1994. Earlier in his career, from 1960 to 1970, he was a curator in the Greek and Roman Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 
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