Egypt Through the Eyes of Travellers

edited by Paul Starkey and Nadia El Kholy

List of illustrations; Preface (Paul Starkey, series editor); Introduction (Paul and Janet Starkey); A public pageant in 1806: Lord Valentia visits Egypt en route to India (Deborah Manley); Berths under the highest stars: Henry William Beechey in Egypt 1816-1819 (Patricia Usick); Florence Nightingale's Letters from Egypt: an imperialist discourse (Loubna A Youssef); Preparing to be an Egyptologist: Amelia Edwards before 1873 (Joan Rees); Rameses III, Giovanni Belzoni and the mysterious Reverend Browne (Penelope Wilson); A house, a museum, and a legend: Bait al-Kretliya (The Gayer-Anderson Museum) (Nadia el Kholy); The affair of Lord Morton's mummy (Iain Gordon Brown); Silent travellers, articulate mummies. 'Mummy Pettigrew' and the discourse of the dead (Sahar Sobhi Abdel-Hakim); Les detours fictionnels du recit de voyage: Le Nil, Egypte et Nubie de Maxime Du Camp (Veronique Magri-Mourgues); Bibliography; List of contributors; Index.