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Journeys Erased by Time: The Rediscovered Footprints of Travellers in Egypt and the Near East (Paperback)
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Journeys Erased by Time: The Rediscovered Footprints of Travellers in Egypt and the Near East (Paperback)
Series: Publications of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East
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Members of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the
Near East (ASTENE), founded in 1997, continue to research, hold
international conferences, and publish books and essays in order to
reveal the lives, journeys and achievements of these less
well-known men and women who have made such a contribution to the
present day historical and geographical knowledge of this region of
the world and who have also given us a better understanding of its
different peoples, languages and religions. The men and women from
the past who are written about in this volume are a mixture of the
incredibly rich or the very poor, and yet they have one thing in
common, the bravery to tackle an adventure into the unknown without
the certainty they would ever return home to their families. Some
took up the challenge as part of their job or to create a new
business, one person travelled to learn how to create and manage a
harem at his house in London, others had no choice because as
captives in a military campaign they were forced to make journeys
into Ottoman controlled lands not knowing exactly where they were,
yet every day they were looking for an opportunity to escape and
return to their homes, while hoping the next person they met would
guide them towards the safest route. Apart from being brave, many
of these men and women travellers have something else in common:
they and others they encountered have left a collective record
describing their travels and their observations about all manner of
things. It is these forgotten pioneers who first gathered the facts
and details that now fill numerous modern guidebooks, inflight
magazines and websites.
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