Journeys erased by time : the rediscovered footprints of travellers in Egypt and the Near East / edited by Neil Cooke.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Neil Cooke.--1: Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela: a 12th-Century Traveller to the Middle East / Paul Starkey.-- 2: George Husz from Rascinia in Slavonia: a Croatian traveller and his voyage around the Orient between 1532 and 1541 / Mladen Tomorad.--3: Samuel Atkins: His diary or journal for the years 1680-88 / Hakan Yazar.--4: More treasure hunting in Qurna the 'Amr Mosque / Caroline Simpson.--5: Soldiering in Egypt / Sarah Shepherd.--6: The French House in Luxor: Living on top of a temple/ Hélène Virenque and Sylvie Weens.--7: The notorious Emil Brugsch: 'It is said that Brugsch Bey would sell the whole museum.'/ Heicke Schmidt.--8: From Rags to Riches: the adventures of Victor Gustave Maunier in Egypt 1848-1868 / Sylvie Weens.--9: 'Let's have a beer at Gorff's!' / Isolde Lehnert.--10: A suffragist in Palestine: Millicent Fawcett's journeys in the 1920s / Lucy Pollard.--11: Anton Prokesch von Osten and his contribution to evolving Egyptology / Ernst Czerny.--12: What the 'Noble Traveller' got up to in Thebes: Lord Belmore's 'Herculean undertaking' in TT 148 / Boyo G. Ockinga.--13: Americans on the river Nile in the 1874-1875 Season / Andrew Oliver.--14: Sources of inspiration: Jean-Baptiste Vanmour and other artist-travellers in Ottoman Lands / Janet Starkey.--15: In the wake of a rake: Artist Francis Smith and the 6th Baron Baltimore / Brian J. Taylor.--16: Everything I Want People to Know is in my Books: Leo Tregenza's Journeys in the Eastern Desert / Ronald E. Zitterkopf.--17: The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) Expedition to Moab in 1872 Ginsburg and Tristram: an old academic quarrel? / David Kennedy.--18: 'Nothing great can be achieved except in the Orient' said Napoleon Bonaparte/ Heba Sheta.

Early travellers in Egypt and the Near East made great contributions to our historical and geographical knowledge and gave us a better understanding of the different peoples, languages and religions of the region. Travellers in this volume are a mixture of rich and poor, bravely adventuring into the unknown, not knowing if would ever return home.