A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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The rest of her life she devoted tirelessly to the setting-up of professional excavation in Egypt, founding the Egypt Exploration Fund (with Reginald Stuart Poole) and establishing the first chair of Egyptology in England at University College, initially occupied by her protege Flinders Petrie. If the century from 1798 to 1898 tells us anything about European involvement up and down the Sahara’s eastern fringes, it’s that war is the midwife of travel, and travel writing is sure to follow. Designed to inform curiosity as well as future travels, participants will come away with an increased understanding of how Western exploration and war in the middle east inspired great writing. Led by an expert on the history of the middle east, Eamonn Gearon, this interactive seminar will explore the connections between travel writing and history. Each session is designed as a stand-alone seminar as well as part of the series. War; travel; writing; and acquisition, this seminar looks at these four strands of history, as seen through a century of material destruction and artistic Creation. This conversation is part of a three-part series with Eamonn Gearon.

• War, Peace, and Travel Writing: European Exploration in Egypt and the Sudan (1798 – 1898) with Eamonn Gearon
• Desert of Dunes, Dreamers, and Dramas: The Sahara as Artistic Muse with Eamonn Gearon
• Sun, Sand, and Spies: Military Intelligence in the Middle East and North Africa (1914 – 1945) with Eamonn Gearon