American Travelers on the Nile

Andrew Oliver is a retired art historian and museum administrator 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 and a curator in the Greek and Roman Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has written and lectured on the decorative arts of the ancient world for many years and has travelled widely in the Mediterranean. Mr. Oliver is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.

Map of Egypt
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Americans in Eighteenth-Century Egypt
Ward Nicholas Boylston
John Ledyard
European Travelers of This Period and Their Accounts
Boylston in London and His Return to Boston
2 Napoleon and the French Savants in Egypt
3 Mehemet Ali’s New Egypt
Francis Barthow
4 American Trade and the Navy in the Mediterranean
The Barbary Pirates and the American Navy
Merhants in Smyrna and Constantinople
American Merchants in Yemen
Alexandria
Tourists Only as Far as Sicily
Tourists in Greece and Turkey before 1820
The War of 1812
5 The European Presence in Egypt from 1815 to 1825
European Diplomats
Europeans Working for the Pasha's Enterprises
European Merchants
European Collectors and Researchers
The British Passage to and from India
Tourists
6 Americans Return to Egypt
A Gentleman of Boston
The Alligator Episode
Cleopatra's Barge
George B. English, Luther Bradish, and George Rapleje
Egyptian Mummies
7 American Missionaries on Tour
Pliny Fisk and Levi Parsons: Mission Postponed in Search of Health
The Reverend Eli Smith in Egypt in 1826
8 The Eastern Question
Americans and the Greek War of Independence
The Greek Boy
American Diplomacy
Greece, Egypt, the Sublime Porte, and the European Powers
American Shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 1820s
9 The Lure of Egypt
Egyptian Revival and the Description de l'Egypte
Henry Oliver
Cornelius Bradford
Allen, Oakley, and Ferguson
The Obeslisk from Luxor to Paris
Mendes Israel Cohen
John Gliddon, United States Consular Agent
John Warren
Americans Who Almost Went to Egypt
Champollion and Pariset in Egypt
10 The US Naval Squadron: Egyptian Curios and Civilian Passengers
The United States Squadron in the Mediterranean
The First Encounter of the Squadron in Egypt
The Warren, Charles W. Skinner, in 1829
The Concord, Matthew C. Perry, and the Kirklands in 1832
The Delaware and Daniel T. Patterson in 1834
The Constitution, the United States, the John Adams, and the Shark in 1836
The Constitution, Jesse D. Elliott, the Hon. Lewis Cass, and Henry Ledyard in 1837
11 Keepers of Diaries: 1833 to 1835
Eli and Sarah Smith
John W. Hamersley
J. Lewis Stackpole and Ralph Stead Izard, Jun.
William B. Hodgson
Rush and Rittenhouse Nutt
John Lowell
Two Brigs from Boston Reach Alexandria
12 Traveling in Egypt
Travel in Europe
Passports and Letters of Introduction
Guidebooks
Funds
Hotels
Dress
Food
Guides and Security
Health
13 John L. Stephens and Fellow Tourists of the Mid-1830s
John L. Stephens
The Haights and the Allens
"Mr. Dorr and Mr. Curtis"
James McHenry Boyd
A New Yorker in 1837
Henry McVickar and John Bard
14 Steamship Travel
15 Professional Visitors
Rev. Edward Robinson, Biblical Archaeologist
Dr. Valentine Mott, Surgeon
Valentine Mott's Arabic Manuscript
Henry P. Marshall, US Consul to Muscat
16 Mills, Giraffes, and Skulls (and even the Telegraph)
Giraffes: From Sudan to Broadway
Morse's Telegraph: From Paris to the Pasha
17 Shall We Meet in Egypt?
Aaron Smith Willington, Publisher of the Charleston Courier
"Mr. L. and Miss H."
Simeon Howard Calhoun, Native of Boston
A Nameless American Tourist in May
18 Philip Rhinelander and His Friends
Rhinelander and His Friends on the Nile
"Dreadful Accident on the Danube"
Rhinelander and His Friends Leave for Vienna
19 After 1839
Illustration Credits
Endnotes
Index