American Travellers Abroad
American Travellers Abroad

Author: Harold Frederick Smith

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780810835542

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Demonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Lost and Now Found: Explorers, Diplomats and Artists in Egypt and the Near East
Lost and Now Found: Explorers, Diplomats and Artists in Egypt and the Near East

Author: Neil Cooke

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2017-07-24

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1784916285

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Long distance travel and mass tourism are not recent phenomena. Papers from the 2015 ASTENE Conference in Exeter demonstrate that over the centuries many individuals and groups of people have left the safety of their family home and travelled huge distances both for adventure and to learn more about other peoples and places.