Description of Egypt
Notes and Views in Egypt and Nubia
$100.37
- Paperback
786 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2020
Summary
The great nineteenth-century British traveler Edward William Lane (1801-76) was the author of a number of highly influential works: An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (1836), his translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1839-41), Selections from the Kur-an (1843), and the Arabic-English Lexicon (1863-93). Yet in 1831, publication of one of his greatest works, Description of Egypt, was delayed, and eventually dropped, mainly for financial reasons, by the publis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9789774169342 |
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| ISBN-10: | 9774169344 |
| Author: | Edward William Lane, Jason Thompson |
| Publisher: | The American University in Cairo Press |
| Imprint: | The American University in Cairo Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 786 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 1.02kg |
| Dimensions: | 150mm x 230mm |
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Critics Review
“Jason Thompson’s exact and dedicated edition deserves much praise.”– ASTENE Bulletin “A major work”–Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly
‘’Jason Thompson’s exact and dedicated edition deserves much praise.’’—ASTENE Bulletin
“A major work’’—Daniel Pipes, Middle East Quarterly
“A valuable snapshot of the ruins in the 1820s before clearance and in some cases, destruction.“—Morris Bierbrier, Egyptian Archaeology
Edward William Lane
Jason Thompson is the author of Sir Gardiner Wilkinson and His Circle, Edward William Lane (AUC Press, 2010), and Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology (3 vols.; AUC Press, 2015, 2018). He is the editor of An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians (AUC Press, 2003).
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