ISBN:
9781611172102
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1611172101
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxxv, 120 p., [36] p. of plates)
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ill. (some col.).
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Women's diaries and letters of the South
Parallel Title:
Print version Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's tales from the grand tour, 1890-1910
DDC:
910.4092
Keywords:
Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler 1843-1919 Travel
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Europe
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Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler 1843-1919 Travel
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Africa, North
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Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler Travel
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Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler Travel
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Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler Travel
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Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler Travel
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Coxe, Elizabeth Sinkler
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TRAVEL ; Essays & Travelogues
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Travel
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Reisebericht
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Europe Description and travel
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Africa, North Description and travel
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Europa
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Nordafrika
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Reisebericht
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Africa, North Description and travel
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Europe Description and travel
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Europe Description and travel
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Africa, North Description and travel
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North Africa
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Europe
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Nordafrika
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Europa
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Reisebericht
Abstract:
"Elizabeth Sinkler Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour, 1890-1910 is a travelogue of captivating adventures through exotic lands as experienced by an intrepid American aristocrat and her son at the dawn of the twentieth century
Abstract:
"Like many of their peers in the upper echelons of American society, this wealthy duo were drawn into the Egyptian craze that swept late-nineteenth-century society, and they fully immersed themselves in the nascent field of scientific archaeology. More obsessed and philanthropic than most, the Coxes not only visited the sites and monuments of ancient civilizations but also participated in digs, funded entire expeditions, and ultimately subsidized the creation of the Coxe Wing of Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania Museum. In addition to the scholarly contributions gained through their patronage, they left a vivid chronicle of camels and trains, tents and trenches, and dervishes and pyramids that has gone unpublished until now
Abstract:
"Her letters and recollections are complemented by numerous photographs and several original watercolor paintings. By words and pictures, Lizzie Coxe's Tales from the Grand Tour reveal the turn-of-the-century excitement about the burgeoning field of Egyptology, the intellectual pursuits available to women of means, and the familial and social ties between the upper classes of the North and South, that predated and survived the Civil War."--BOOK JACKET
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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