Egypt
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/
I continue to be impressed with this website. Not only does it look good and have great content, but it is regularly updated with new material. The latest entries include:
- Meeting Henry Salt - Narrative Of A Journey Overland
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/10/franks_at_alexandria.htmlThe Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with this piece written in 1830 by Mrs Colonel Elwood from Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe,...
- Prisse D'avennes
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/prisse.html The Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with a verbal portrait of Prisse D'Avennes, who travelled Egypt in the late 1800s: "Of the hundreds of 19th-century Orientalists – those...
- Travellers In Egypt Website - Status Update
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/ The Travellers in Egypt website has not been updated for a month due to the absense of its owner who has been a way for a spell. However, Marco is now back and will be posting new updates to the site in the near future...
- Travellers In Egypt
Lotus and Pyramid: Constance - Constance Sitwell, 1928 http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/04/white_bird_in_h.html "I am sitting on the window-sill in my room eating sugar-cane. It is so juicy and fresh one could go on nibbling at it all day....
- More From "travellers In Egypt"
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/02/from_suez_to_ca.html The most recent offering is an excerpt from "Orient Line Guide - Chapters for travellers by sea and by land" entitled "From Suez to Cairo" (London, 1890). It is a narrative description,...
Egypt
Travellers in Egypt Website - New Articles
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/
I continue to be impressed with this website. Not only does it look good and have great content, but it is regularly updated with new material. The latest entries include:
- Thebes - its temples and great ruins http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/01/thebes_its_temp.html
- Ippolito Rosellini - the father of Italian Egyptology http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/01/ippolito_rosell.html
- The Hareem - by Harriet Martineau in 1848 - a fascinating article written in the nineteenth century by a fabulous lady with a terrific descriptive style - I really loved this piece http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/01/the_hareem.html
The site is looking for contributors who meet their standards.
- Meeting Henry Salt - Narrative Of A Journey Overland
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/10/franks_at_alexandria.htmlThe Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with this piece written in 1830 by Mrs Colonel Elwood from Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe,...
- Prisse D'avennes
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/prisse.html The Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with a verbal portrait of Prisse D'Avennes, who travelled Egypt in the late 1800s: "Of the hundreds of 19th-century Orientalists – those...
- Travellers In Egypt Website - Status Update
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/ The Travellers in Egypt website has not been updated for a month due to the absense of its owner who has been a way for a spell. However, Marco is now back and will be posting new updates to the site in the near future...
- Travellers In Egypt
Lotus and Pyramid: Constance - Constance Sitwell, 1928 http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/04/white_bird_in_h.html "I am sitting on the window-sill in my room eating sugar-cane. It is so juicy and fresh one could go on nibbling at it all day....
- More From "travellers In Egypt"
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/02/from_suez_to_ca.html The most recent offering is an excerpt from "Orient Line Guide - Chapters for travellers by sea and by land" entitled "From Suez to Cairo" (London, 1890). It is a narrative description,...