| Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land - Volume 1 Contributor(s): Stephens, John Lloyd (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108079245 ISBN-13: 9781108079242 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $42.74 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Middle East - General - Social Science | Archaeology - Travel | Essays & Travelogues |
| Dewey: 915 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.94 lbs) 334 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The American writer and diplomat John Lloyd Stephens (1805-52) was effectively the founder of Mesoamerican archaeology, through his rediscovery of the Mayan civilization (his two-volume Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan is also reissued in this series). But before that, having qualified and practised as a lawyer in New York, he went on a two-year journey through Egypt and the Near East, publishing an account of his experiences in 1837 (under the name of George Stephens): this reissue is of the expanded 1838 edition. The work was extremely popular, possibly because, as he states in the preface, Stephens writes 'without perplexing himself with any deep speculations upon the rise and fall of empires', nor does he give much archaeological detail. Volume 1 begins with Stephens' arrival at Alexandria in Egypt, and his journey down the Nile to the Cataracts; it ends with a visit to St Catherine's monastery in Sinai. |
