Bibliography of travels and travellers, in egypt and near east, from ancient times to the nineteenth century (and some other arguments related)
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Primary Sources
Travels of Ali Bey: In Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria and Turkey
by Ali Bey
The Keys of Egypt: The Race to Crack the Hieroglyph Code
by Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins
Edward W. Lane: A study of his life and works and of British ideas of the Middle East in the nineteenth century
by Leila Ahmed
Baedeker's Egypt 1929
by Karl Baedeker
Travels of Ibn Battutah
by Ibn Battuta, Tim MacKintosh-Smith
Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia: Belzoni's Travels
by Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Alberto Siliotti (Editor)
Who Was Who In Egyptology
by M.L. Bierbrier
Pierre Loti: Travels with the Legendary Romantic
by Lesley Blanch
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
by John Lewis Burckhardt
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Mecca - Vol. 1
by Richard F. Burton
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Mecca - Vol. 2
by Richard F. Burton
Egyptian Diaries: How One Man Unveiled the Mysteries of the Nile
by Jean-Fran�ois Champollion, Peter Clayton
Lettres et journaux �crits pendant le voyage d'Egypte
by Jean-Fran�ois Champollion
The Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt: Artists and Travellers in the Ninteenth Century
by Peter Clayton
Bernardino Drovetti: Epistolario
by Silvio Curto, Laura Donatelli
Voyage en Orient
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt
by Vivant Denon
Exploring European Frontiers: British Travellers in the Age of Enlightenment
by Brian Dolan
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveller of the 14th Century
by Ross E. Dunn
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
by Amelia Edwards
Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
by Amelia Edwards
The Rape Of The Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt
by Brian Fagan
Journal of a Route across India, through Egypt to England
by George August Frederick Fitzclarence
Voyage en Egypte
by Gustave Flaubert
Travellers in the Near East
by Charles Foster
Herodotus: The Histories : New Translation, Selections, Backgrounds, Commentaries (Norton Critical Editions)
by Herodotus
Bonaparte in Egypt
by J. Christopher Herold
Travels in Egypt & Nubia, Syria & Asia Minor
by Hon. Charles Irby, James Mangles
Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982
by T.G.H. James
Nile Notes of a Howadji
by Martin R. Kalfatovic
Sur le Nil avec Champollion: Lettres, journaux et dessins in�dits de Nestor L'H�te : premier voyage en Egypte, 1828-1830
by Nestor L'H�te
An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians
by Edward William Lane, Jason Whompson
Description of Egypt: Notes and Views on Egypt and Nubia Made During the Years 1825-1828
by Edward William Lane, Jason Whompson
Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing 1770-1840
by Nigel Leask
Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia and the peninsula of Sinai
by Richard Lepsius
Egypt (La Mort De Philae)
by Pierre Loti
Travels With a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
by Tim MacKintosh-Smith
Henry Salt: Artist, Traveller, Diplomat, Egyptologist
by Deborah Manley, Peta Ree
The Land of the Pharaohs
by Samuel Manning
The Great Belzoni: The Circus Strongman Who Discovered Egypt's Ancient Treasures
by Stanley Mayes
The Blue Nile
by Alan Moorehead
The White Nile
by Alan Moorehead
Letters from Egypt: A journey on the Nile, 1849-1850
by Florence Nightingale
Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia
by W.C. Prime
Amelia Edwards: Traveller, Novelist and Egyptologist
by Joan Rees
Napoleon's Proconsul In Egypt: The Life and Times of Bernardino Drovetti
by Ronald T. Ridley
David Roberts: Travels in Egypt & the Holy Land
by David Roberts, Debra N. Mancoff
The Holy Land and Egypt & Nubia
by David Roberts
The Monuments of Egypt and Nubia
by Ippolito Rosellini
Traveling Man: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354
by James Rumford
A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of That Country
by Henry Salt
Travellers in the Levant: Voyagers and Visionaries
by Sarah Searight, Malcolm Wagstaff
Desert Traveller: The Life of Jean Louis Burckhardt
by Katharine Sim
Desert Travellers: From Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence
by Janet Starkey, Okasha El Daly
Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers
by Paul Starkey, Nadia El Kholy
Interpreting the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East
by Paul Starkey, Janet Starkey
Travellers in Egypt
by Paul Starkey, Janet Starkey
Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East
by Paul Starkey
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land
by John Lloyd Stephens
A Journey to Central Africa
by Bayard Taylor
Sir Gardner Wilkinson and His Circle
by Jason Thompson
Egypt itself: The career of Robert Hay, Esquire, of Linplum and Nunraw, 1799-1863
by Selwyn Tillett
Journal of a tour in the Levant
by William Turner
Adventures in Egypt and Nubia: The Travels of William John Bankes (1786-1855)
by Patricia Usick
Voyages and travels in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt: In the years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806
by George Annesley, Viscount Valentia (later Earl of Mountnorris)
Travels Through Syria & Egypt in the Years 1783, 1784 & 1785
by Constantin Volney
Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a description of Egypt, including the information required for travellers in that country
by John Gardner Wilkinson
Grand Tours and Cook's Tours: A History of Leisure Travel, 1750-1915
by Lynne Withey
Further Readings
Cairo: 1001 Years of the City Victorious
by Janet Abu-Lughod
Travel Literature and the Evolution of the Novel
by Percy Adams
Travellers and Travel Liars, 1660-1800
by Percy Adams
Napoleon in Egypt: Al-Jabarti's Chronicle of the French Occupation, 1798
by Sheik Al-Jabarti, Shmuel Moreh
Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali
by Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot
Egypt in 1800: Scenes from Napoleon's Description de l'Egypte
by Robert Anderson, Ibrahim Fawzy
British Orientalists
by Arthur John Arberry
Oriental Essays: Portraits of Seven Scholars
by Arthur John Arberry
Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter
by Talal Asad
Voyages & Visions: Nineteenth-Century European Images of the Middle East from the Victoria and Albert Museum
by Esin Atil, Charles Newton, Sarah Searight
Morning Star: Florence Baker's diary of the expedition to put down the slave trade on the Nile, 1870-1873
by Anne Baker
Syria and Egypt Under the Last Five Sultans of Turkey
by Edward B. Barker
Pleasurable Instruction: Form and Convention in Eighteenth Century Travel Literature
by Charles Batten
Travels in Asia and Africa
by Ibn Battuta, H.A.R. Gibbs
Village Life in Egypt
by St. John Bayle
Imperial Meridian: The British Empire and the World 1780-1830
by C.A. Bayly
Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution
by Ali Behdad
Napoleon in Egypt
by Irene A. Bierman, Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot
Vintage Egypt Cruising The Nile
by Alain Blottiere
The Legitimacy of the Modern Age
by Hans Blumenberg, Robert M. Wallace
History of Egypt from the Earliest Time to the Persian Conquest
by James Henry Breasted
The 1905-1907 Breasted expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan: a photographic study: the Oriental Institute
by James Henry Breasted
Thomas Cook: 150 years of popular tourism
by Piers Brendon
Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptian of Today
by Haji A. Browne
Cook's Handbook for Egypt and the Sudan (1906), part 1
by E.A. Wallis Budge
Cook's Handbook for Egypt and the Sudan (1906), part 2
by E.A. Wallis Budge
The Rosetta Stone
by E.A. Wallis Budge
Up the Nile: A photographic excursion, Egypt 1839-1898
by Deborah Bull, Donald Lorimer
Arabic Proverbs and the Manners and Customs of Modern Egyptians
by John Lewis Burckhardt
Notes on the Bedouins and Wahabys, Collected During His Travels in the East: By the Late John Lewis Burckhardt
by John Lewis Burckhardt
Travels in Arabia
by John Lewis Burckhardt
The Beaten Track: European Tourism, Literature, and the Ways to Culture, 1800-1918
by James Buzard
Five Years' Explorations at Thebes: A Record of Work Done 1907-1911
by Earl of Carnavon, Howard Carter
The Egyptian revival: Its sources, monument and meaning, 1808-1858
by Richard Carrott
Description of a View of the Great Temple of Karnak
by Robert Burford, F. Catherwood
The Leisure of an Egyptian Official
by Edward Cecil
Dictionnaire Egyptien
by Jean-Fran�ois Champollion
Lettre A M Dacier Relative A L Alphabet Des Hieroglyphes
by Jean-Fran�ois Champollion
Pleasure and Guilt On the Grand Tour: Travel Writing and Imaginative Geography, 1600-1830
by Chloe Chard
Bonaparte Governor of Egypt
by Francois Charles-Roux
Dominique Vivant Denon et le Louvre de Napol�on
by Jean Chatelain
Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit
by Stephen Clark
Maalesh: A Teatrical Tour in the Middle-East
by Jean Cocteau
A Reference Guide to the Literature of Travel
by Edward G. Cox
The Writing of History in Nineteenth-Century Egypt: A Study in National Transformation
by Jack Jr. Crabbs
Via Cornwall to Egypt
by Constance Gordon Cumming
The Egyptian Revival
by James Stevens Curl
Nile Notes of a Howadji
by George William Curtis
Tales of Travel
by George Nathaniel Curzon
Visits to Monasteries in the Levant
by Robert Curzon
Pierre Loti: Romance of a Great Writer
by Edward B. D'Auvergne
The Cambridge History of Egypt: Volume 2: Modern Egypt, from 1517 to End of the Twentieth Century
by M.W. Daly
Oriental Scenery
by Thomas Daniell
A Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Comprising Recollections, Sketches and Reflections Made During a Tour in the East, in 1832-1833
by Alphonse de Lamartine
Voyage en Orient - vol. 1
by Gerald de Nerval
Voyage en Orient - vol. 2
by Gerald de Nerval
Diodorus on Egypt
by Diodorus Siculus, Edwin Murphy
Founder of Modern Egypt: a study of Muhammed Ali
by Henry Dodwell
Un voyageur en Egypt vers 1850: "Le Nil" de Maxime Du Camp
by Maxime Du Camp
Spirit of place: Letters and Essays on Travel
by Lawrence Durrell, Alan G. Thomas
From the Pyramids to Tutankhamun: Memoirs of an Egyptologist
by I.E.S. Edwards
Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel
by Jas Elsner, Joan-Pau Rubies
Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Collection of Poems, Narratives, and Manuals of Instruction from the Third and Second Millennia Bc
by Adolph Erman, Aylward M. Blackman
Life in Ancient Egypt
by Adolph Erman
Wanderings of Felix Fabri, Volumes 1 & 2
by Felix Fabri
All the Pashas Men: Mehmed Ali his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt
by Khaled Fahmy
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour - A Narrative Drawn from Gustave Flaubert's Travel Notes & Letters
by Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller
Pharos et Pharillon
by Edward Morgan Forster
L'�gypte � la chambre noire
by Jean Vercoutter, Francis Frith
Photographs of Egypt and the Holy Land
by Frances Frith, Caroline Williams
Joseph Banks and the English Enlightenment: Useful Knowledge and Polite Culture
by John Gascoigne
With the Camel Corps up the Nile
by Edward Gleichen
Kayaks down the Nile
by John Goddard
An Egyptian Journal
by William Golding
Letters from Egypt (1862-1869)
by Lucie Duff Gordon
Time Out of Mind
by Joan Marshall Grant
David Roberts R.A. 1796-1864
by Helen Guiterman
Discovery Guide to Egypt
by Michael Haag
Lovers on the Nile
by Richard Hall
Thomas Cook: The Holiday-Maker
by Jill Hamilton
The Literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the Earliest Times to 1885
by H.H. Ibrahim Hilmy
Egyptian Journeys
by David Hockney
Travels in Ethiopia, above the second cataract of the Nile
by G.A. Hoskins
From an antique land: ancient and modern in the Middle East
by Julian Huxley
Thomas Cook of Leicester
by Robert Ingle
Oriental spotlight
by Claude Scudamore Jarvis
Views of Ancient Egypt since Napoleon Bonaparte: Imperialism, Colonialism and Modern Appropriations
by David Jeffreys
Archaeologists and Aesthetes in the Sculpture Galleries of the British Museum 1800-1939
by Ian Jenkins
Travels in Africa during years
by Wilhelm Junker
Europe's Myths of Orient
by Rana Kabbani
Beyond the Pyramids: Travels in Egypt
by Douglas Kennedy
Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe during the years 1799 to 1803
by Abu Talib Khan
Eothen or Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East
by Alexander William Kinglake
Letters of Travel
by Rudyard Kipling
A New Yorker in Egypt
by Hans K�ning
History of Egypt in the Middle Ages
by Stanley Lane-Poole
Selected Letter
by Edward Lear
British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire
by Nigel Leask
The Egyptian sketch book
by Charles Godfrey Leland
John Frederick Lewis, R.A., 1805-1876
by Michael Lewis
Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Hola Land, Mount Libanon and Cyprus in the year 1814
by Henry Light
Letters on Egypt, Edom and the Holy Land
by Lord Lindsay
Geography and Enlightenment
by David N. Livingstone
Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms
by Lisa Lowe
The Nile: The life-story of a river
by Emil Ludwig
Pleasure of ruins
by Rose Macaulay
Consuming Ancient Egypt
by Sally Macdonald, Michael Rice
Orientalism: History, Theory and the Arts
by John M. MacKenzie
Canadians on the Nile, 1882-1898
by Roy MacLaren
Journey from Moscow to Constantinople in the years 1817, 1818
by William MacMichael
City of the Dead: Thebes in Egypt
by Lise Manniche
L'�gypte de Mariette - Voyage dans la Haute-Egypte: Compris entre Le Caire et la premi�re cataracte
by Auguste Mariette
Women's Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718-1918 - Sexuality, Religion and Work
by Billie Melman
That Noble Cabinet: A History of the British Museum
by Edward Miller
England in Egypt
by Alfred Milner
Colonising Egypt
by Timothy Mitchell
Memoirs of Napoleon's Egyptian Expedition 1798-1801
by Joseph-Marie Moiret, Rosemary Brindle
Notes from a Private journal of a visit to Egypt and Palestine
by Lady J. Montefiore
Through Lands of the Bible
by H.V. Morton
Description de l'Egypte: Publiee par les ordres de Napoleon Bonaparte
by Gilles Neret
Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land
by Stephen Olin
Journey to the Source of the Nile
by Christopher Ondaatje
Narrative of a year's journey through central and eastern Arabia (1862-1863)
by William Gifford Palgrave
Travels in the Interior Discricts of Africa
by Mungo Park
Wandering of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque
by Fanny Parkes
Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
by R. B. Parkinson
Wanderings of a Pilgrim: In Search of the Picturesque
by Fanny Parks
Ten Years Diggin in Egypt
by Flinders Petrie
The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo Written During a Residence There in 1842 - 46
by Sophia Poole
Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
by Mary Louise Pratt
The Other Nile
by Charles Pye-Smith
Far-Fetched Facts: The Literature of Travel and the Idea of the South Seas
by Neil Rennie
Thebes its Tombs and their Tenants, a Record of Excavation in the Necropolis
by Henry Rhind
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara in the Years of 1845 & 1846
by James Richardson
Egypt: Yesterday and Today
by David Roberts, Fabio Bourbon, Antonio Attini
Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay
by Emma Roberts
The Holy Land: Yesterday and Today
by David Roberts, Fabio Bourbon, Antonio Attini
Wayward Women: A Guide to Women Travellers
by Jane Robinson
Valley of the Kings
by John Romer
The Napoleonic Survey of Egypt: Description De L'Egypte: The Monuments and Customs of Egypt: Selected Engravings and Texts
by Terence M. Russell
Culture and Imperialism
by Edward W. Said
Orientalism
by Edward W. Said
A Relation of a Journey Begun in 1610: The Turkish Empire of Egypt, the Holy Land, etc.
by George Sandys
Lifting the Veil: British Society in Egypt, 1768-1956
by Anthony Sattin
Temples and Tombs of Ancient Nubia: The International Rescue Campaign at Abu Simbel, Philae and Other Sites
by Torgny Save-Soderbergh
The British in the Middle East (A Social history of the British overseas)
by Sarah Searight
Travels or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant
by Thomas Shaw
Queer Things about Egypt 1911
by Douglas Sladen
Travels in Upper & Lower Egypt
by C.S. Sonnini
Sinai & Palestine
by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
With Kitchener to Khartum
by G.W. Steevens
Women of the World: Women Travelers and Explorers
by Rebecca Stefoff
The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse: The Allure of North Africa and the Near East
by Mary Anne Stevens
Cook's tours: The story of popular travel
by Edmund Swinglehurst
The romantic journey: The story of Thomas Cook and Victorian travel
by Edmund Swinglehurst
Travels and Adventures 1435-1439
by Pero Tafur, Malcolm Letts
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Gran Cairo
by William Makepeace Thackeray
Colonialism's Culture
by Nicholas Thomas
The Orientalists: Painter-Travellers
by Lynne Thornton
Women on Nineteenth-Century Egypt
by Judith E. Tucker
Below the Cataracts 1907
by Walter Tyndale
Voyage d'Orient suivi de po�mes de M�nilmontant et d'Egypte
by Ismayl Urbain
Ptolemaic Philae
by Eleni Vassilika
The Search for Ancient Egypt
by Jean Vercoutter
Operations Carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: With an Account of a Voyage into Upper Egypt and an Appendix
by Howard Vyse
The Golden Age of Travel
by Andrew Williamson
The Diaries of Blakely Wilson, an American Traveler in Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land (1874-1876)
by Blakely Wilson
How Many Miles to Babylon?: Travels and Adventures to Egypt and Beyond, 1300 to 1640
by Anne Wolff
A History of the Levant Company
by Alfred C. Wood
Thomas Young: Natural Philosopher, 1773-1829
by Alexander Wood
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