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Arab World
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308 pages, Softback
156x234mm, Portrait
black and white illustrations throughout
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ISBN-10: 1900988712
ISBN-13: 9781900988711
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Travellers in the Near East
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The Orientalists were a breed apart. Amateur enthusiasts with a thirst for adventure, entrepreneurs hunting for eastern treasures,scientists and early anthropologists and individuals desperate to escape the confines of Europe, these men and women were pioneer tourists in unknown lands. They have left us a legacy of fascinating romantic and enlightening insight into the Near East from a European perspective, and Charles Foster brings together a collection of studies of some of the most vivid and memorable of them in this book, which is published in conjunction with the Association for Study of Travellers in Egypt and the Near East.
This is a publication generated from papers given in Edinburgh at the 4th ASTENE biennial conference in 2001. ASTENE website
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| Charles Foster - Charles Foster is a barrister, writer, traveller, and a Tutor in Medical Law and Ethics at the University of Oxford. He read law and veterinary medicine at Cambridge, and then worked on the immobilization of gazelles in Saudi Arabia, and the comparative anatomy of the Himalayan Hispid Hare at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a Research Fellow at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has numerous publications which have recently included pieces on wolf hunting in Kazakhstan, swimming the Hellespont, a number of essays on the literature of travel, and a chapter in the ASTENE book Desert Travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence on 'The Zoology of Herodotus and his Greek descendants.' A lot of his life is spent on expeditions, particularly to desert regions such as the Western Desert, the Algerian Sahara, Sinai and the Danakil Depression. In 2002 he skied to the North Pole.
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