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Ivo Klaver discusses four major expeditions which assembled scientific data in various parts of the Arab world between 1761 and 1881. Sponsored by governments and official institutions they were aimed at satisfying a desire for national prestige in a European imperialistic context, either in the field of knowledge or in the field of trade.

This is a lavishly illustrated account of three centuries of Western women's travel writing on the East. Drawing on the superb collection of books and manuscripts in the Arcadian Library in London it describes the lives and travels of well-known women such as Mary Wortley Montagu, Florence Nightingale, Gertrude Bell, and Lady Anne Blunt.