Souvenirs and New Ideas: Travel and Collecting in Egypt and the Near East

by Diane Fortenberry

Early travelers to Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Turkey and the Levant recorded and remembered their journeys by collecting or creating mementos of places they visited. This natural inclination took many guises, ranging from painting landscapes or, later, taking photographs to acquiring souvenirs, very often antiquities. The collection of antiquities, a controversial and usually illegal practice today, was in the 18th and 19th centuries not necessarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1842178156
• ISBN13: 9781842178157
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.3" x 8.9"