From: HMAVERIK@aol.com

Subject: Eminent persons that visited the M.E. in the past

To: mona@israelmail.com

Here is an account of some of the eminent and well acclaimed persons who visited the Middle East, and left quite an account of their respective voyages…, they were Royalty, Government Officials, Writers, Painters and Ambassadors… I am giving hereunder (for the genuinely interested reader) a list of the most acclaimed.

Comte De Volney 1787 Travel through Syria and Egypt

Francois Rene de Chateaubriand 1806 Itineraire de Paris a Jerusalem

Caroline of Brunswick 1814 Wife of the Prince of Wales 1795

Lady Hester Stanhope 1814 Her memoirs narrated by her physician, Meryon 1846

James Silk Buckingham 1816 Travel in Palestine through Bashan and Gilead 1821

Charles Leonard Irby 1818 Travels in Egypt & Nubia , Syria & the Holy Land

Moses Montefiore 1827 Many diaries published

Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine 1832 Souvenirs d'Orient

John Lloyd Stephens 1834-5 Incident of Travels……

Alexander Klingdale 1835 Traces of Travel 1844

Edward Robinson 1838 Biblical researches in Palestine 1841

William Wilde 1840 Narrative of Journeys… 1840

William Makepeace Thackeray 1844 From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 1846

James Finn 1845-1863 British Consul Jerusalem and Palestine

Robert Gurzon 1849 Visit to monasteries in the Levant 1849

James Turner Barclay 1851-1854 The City of the Great King 1858

William Holden Hunt 1854 The scapegoat, The Shadow of Death

Arthur Penhryn Stanley 1856 Sinai and Palestine 1856

Edward Lear 1858 Journal of a Landscape 1851

Henry Baker Tristram 1863-64 A Journey of Travels in Palestine 1865

Charles Warren 1867 Palestine Exploration fund ( surveyor)

John McGregor 1868 The Rob Roy on the Jordan 1870

Mark Twain 1869 Innocent Abroad

Horatio Herbert Kitchener 1874-1875 Palestine Exploration Fund (Surveyor)

Laurence Oliphant 1881 The Land of Gilead

Rudolph of Austria 1883-1884 Travels in the East 1884

Gertrude Bell 1899 Letters 1927

T.E. Lawrence 1914 The Seven Pillars of Wisdom 1927