Carl Thompson is Reader in English Literature and Travel Culture at Nottingham Trent University, where his research interests include Romanticism, travel writing, eighteenth and nineteenth century women's writing, poetry, literature and science and shipwreck narratives. Recent publications include Shipwreck in Art and Literature: Images and Interpretations from Antiquity to the Present Day (editor) (2013) and Travel Writing (2011). Francesca Saggini (Author) , Lois Chaber (Author).

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Continuing the series on Women's Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East. Part I includes three separate volumes that include the writings of Volume 1: Sarah Wilson, The Fruits of Enterprise Exhibited in the Travels of Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia (1825); Volume 2 Barbara Hofland, The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred Campbell's Return to the East and his Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabia Petraea (1826); and Volume 3: 'Miss Tully', Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa (1816).

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Part I Volume 2 Barbara Hofland, The Young Pilgrim, or Alfred Campbell's Return to the East and his Travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabia Petraea &c (1826)