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Women Travelers in Egypt : From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century
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ISBN: 1617973602 1617975192 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : I.B.Tauris,

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Until late in the nineteenth century, few guidebooks acknowledged the presence of women as travelers-although women had been traveling around the world for centuries. Women's accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth century, and Egypt was a popular destination. Women had more time to watch and describe; they were more dependent on the Egyptian staff; they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni, Sophia Poole, and Ellen Chennells, spoke Ar


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Pilgrim & preacher
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ISBN: 9780198717072 0198717075 0191026514 0191785644 9780191026515 9781322008615 1322008612 9780191785641 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford

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This is a volume which seeks to understand the numerous pilgrimage writings of the Dominican Felix Fabri (1437/8-1502), not only as rich descriptions of the Holy Land, Egypt, and Palestine, but also as sources for the religious attitudes and social assumptions that went into their creation.

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