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Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, during the Years 1817 and 1818 (Paperback)
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Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and Asia Minor, during the Years 1817 and 1818 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
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The preface to this work describes how its authors, Charles Irby
(1789 1845) and James Mangles (1786 1867), both officers in the
Royal Navy, left England in 1816 for a tour of the continent.
'Curiosity at first, and an increasing admiration of antiquities as
they advanced, carried them at length through several parts of the
Levant.' On their return to England, interest in Egypt being at its
height, they were persuaded to compile this book from their letters
to friends and family at home, and had it privately printed in
1823. Their account begins in Cairo, whence they made a journey
down the Nile, meeting with Giovanni Belzoni at Abu Simbel. They
then travelled from Cairo across the desert and along the coast of
the Holy Land, reaching Aleppo and exploring Syria. This detailed
account of their two-year travels provides much information of
continuing interest to archaeologists and historians."
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