American Travelers on the Nile: Early Us Visitors to Egypt, 1774-1839

by Andrew Oliver

The Treaty of Ghent signed in 1814, ending the War of 1812, allowed Americans once again to travel abroad. Medical students went to Paris, artists to Rome, academics to G ttingen, and tourists to all European capitals. More intrepid Americans ventured to Athens, to Constantinople, and even to Egypt. Beginning with two eighteenth-century travelers, this book then turns to the 25-year period after 1815 that saw young men from East Coast cities, among...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774166671
• ISBN13: 9789774166679
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.4"