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British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century: Volume II: Travel Writing book cover

1st Edition

British Egyptology in the Nineteenth Century Volume II: Travel Writing

By Kathleen L. Sheppard Copyright 2026
232 Pages
by Routledge

While there had technically been people studying the ancient Egyptian world since around 400 BCE, the first Western scholars arrived in Egypt the medieval period. It was in 1798 though that the French under Napoleon invaded Egypt not only with an army of soldiers but with an army of scholars, which resulted in the truly epic Description de l’Egypte (1809-1822). Not to be outdone, under Lord Nelson... Read more

Volume II: Travel Writing

General Introduction

Volume II Introduction

Part 1. Egypt as a Health Resort

1. Alexander Henry Rhind, Egypt: Its climate, character and resources as a winter resort (Edinburgh: Thomas Constable & Co., 1856), pp. 1–9, 15–18, 80–8, 90–106, 113–8.

2. Lucie Duff Gordon, Lady Duff Gordon’s Letters from Egypt, Revised ed. Edited by Janet Ross (London: Messers. MacMillan & Co, 1865; London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1902), pp. 24–6, 60–3, 109–12, 121–4, 278, 379–83.

3. Fleming Sandwith, Egypt as a Winter Resort (London: Kegan Paul, 1889), pp. v–vi, 1–8, 11.

4. Maggie Benson, Life and Letters of Maggie Benson, ed. A.C. Benson (London: John Murray, 1917), pp. 185–6, 198–201, 203–5.

 

Part 2. The Colonial Administration                      

5. Sophia Lane Poole, The Englishwoman in Egypt: Letters from Cairo, Vol 1 (London: Charles Knight & Co., 1844), pp. i, v–vi, 107–23, 206–18.

6. The Earl of Cromer, Modern Egypt (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1908), 1–8, 281–99, 388–95.

7. Edward Herbert Cecil, The Leisure of an Egyptian Official (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921), pp. iii–vi, xix, 11–22, 89–100, 115–30.

Part 3. Thomas Cook's Tourists     

8. John Gardner Wilkinson, Hand-book for travellers in Egypt: including descriptions of the course of the Nile to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and Thebes, the overland transit to India, the peninsula of Mount Sinai, the oases, &c. (London: John Murray, 1847), pp. 1–7, 43–4.

9. Harriet Martineau, Eastern Life, Present and Past, Vol. 1 (London: Edward Moxon, 1848), pp. 80–9, 284–91.

10. Karl Baedeker, ed. Egypt. Handbook for Travellers: Lower Egypt, with the Fayûm and the Peninsula of Sinai (Leipsic: Karl Baedeker; London: Dulau & Co., 1878), pp. 1–29.

11. H. M. and N. Tirard, ‘Down the Nile from Aboo-Simbel to Karnack’, Sketches from a Nile Steamer for the Use of Travellers in Egypt (London: Kegan Paul, 1891), pp. 162–71.

12. Thomas Cook & Son, Cook’s Tourists’ Handbook for Egypt, the Nile and the Desert (London: Thomas Cook & Son, 1897), pp. iii–iv, 1–2, 4–22.

 

Part 4. Archaeologists as Travelers

13. Henry Salt, A Descriptive Poem with Notes by a Traveller (Alexandria: European Press, 1824), pp. 23–36.

14. W. M. Flinders Petrie, Ten Years’ Digging in Egypt, 1881-1891 Second ed., revised (London: Religious Tract Society, 1893), 187–96.

15. Letters to the Egypt Exploration Fund

W.E. Kingsford to Emily Paterson, 12 November 1894, EES XI 1894-99, XId14;

Thos. Cook & Son to Emily Paterson, 16 February 1895, EES XI 1894-99, XId28

16. Letters to the Egypt Exploration Fund

David Hogarth to Herbert A. Grueber, 5 March 1895, EES XI 1894-99, Xid30          

David Hogarth to Herbert A. Grueber, 24 March 1895, EES XI 1894-99, Xid30

 

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Kathleen L. Sheppard is Professor of history in the History and Political Science department at Missouri S&T, USA. She is also the Director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society.

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