Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land

Volume 1

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ID19909154
AuthorsJohn Lloyd Stephens (corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-01-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueIncidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781316015322
OpenAlexW1606159629
Open LibraryOL29263234M
ISBN9781316015322
LanguageEN
Citations received12

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Civilization · Fall of man · Geography · George (robot) · Literature · Political science · Publishing · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · 1805-1852 · description and travel · Middle east · Stephens, john lloyd · Travelers' writings

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