Author: Lucy Sarah Atkins WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Fruits of Enterprise
Author: Lucy Sarah Atkins WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia
Author: Sarah AtkinsFruits of Enterprize exhibited in the travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia; interspersed with the observations of a mother to her children. By the author of: “The India Cabinet” [i.e. Sarah Atkins, afterwards L.S. Wilson].
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Author: Giovanni Battista BelzoniPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Fruits of Enterprise, Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia
Author: Lucy Sarah Atkins WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia
Author: Sarah AtkinsThe Great Belzoni
Author: Stanley MayesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 085771306X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The truly extraordinary life story of Giovanni Belzoni, one of the giants of 19th century Egyptian archaeology. Sometimes maligned as a tomb robber, Giovanni Battista Belzoni - engineer, barber, monk, actor and strongman in a circus, where he earned his title, 'The Great Belzoni' - is perhaps the most important and yet least remembered explorer and archaeologist of the last two hundred years. After a failed business venture in Egypt, attempting to sell a patent water wheel to the Pasha, he undertook one of the most ambitious archaeological projects ever. Under seeming impossible conditions, Belzoni transported the colossal granite head of Ramesses II from Thebes to England, where it is now one of the treasures of the British Museum. He went on to excavate the great temple of Abu Simbel, discover six major royal tombs in the Valley of the Kings, including that of Seti I, and provide the British Museum with a spectacular collection of Egyptian antiquities. Giovanni Belzoni was the first person to penetrate the heart of the second pyramid at Giza and the first European to visit the oasis of Siwah and discover the ruined city of Berenice on the Red Sea. His exhibitions and best-selling memoirs made him a major celebrity in Regency London where he was a huge influence on the vogue for Egyptian style in art, design and architecture. In 1823, at the age of forty-five, Belzoni died of fever trying to reach the mysterious city of Timbuktu.
Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel-Writing, 1770-1840
Author: Nigel LeaskPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191554391
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
The decades between 1770 and 1840 are rich in exotic accounts of the ruin-strewn landscapes of Ethiopia, Egypt, India, and Mexico. Yet it is a field which has been neglected by scholars and which - unjustifiably - remains outside the literary canon. In this pioneering book, Nigel Leask studies the Romantic obsession with these 'antique lands', drawing generously on a wide range of eighteenth and nineteenth-century travel books, as well as on recent scholarship in literature, history, geography, and anthropology. Viewing the texts primarily as literary works rather than 'transparent' adventure stories or documentary sources, he sets out to challenge the tendency in modern academic work to overemphasize the authoritative character of colonial discourse. Instead, he addresses the relationship between narrative, aesthetics, and colonialism through the unstable discourse of antiquarianism, exploring the effects of problems of credit worthiness, and the nebulous epistemological claims of 'curiosity' (a leitmotif of the accounts studied here), on the contemporary status of travel writing. Attentive to the often divergent idioms of elite and popular exoticism, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing plots the transformation of the travelogue through the period, as the baroque particularism of curiosity was challenged by picturesque aesthetics, systematic 'geographical narrative', and the emergence of a 'transcendental self' axiomatic to Romantic culture. In so doing it offers an important reformulation of the relations between literature, aesthetics, and empire in the late Enlightenment and Romantic periods.
Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia, Interspersed with the Observations of a Mother to Her Children
Author: Sarah AtkinsViews of Ancient Egypt Since Napoleon Bonaparte
Author: David JeffreysPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131541600X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In a combination of case studies and discursive chapters, the status of Egypt as an important example of traditional Asian scholarship, and as an ancient model of imperialism itself, is examined.
Nina
Author: Maria Elizabeth BuddenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 105
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