Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, UK.Maya Muratov is Assistant Professor of Art History at Adelphi University, USA.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Interpreting the Orient2. Mediating Language and Culture Dragomans and TouristsThe Profession of DragomanInnocents AbroadManaging ClientsLearning Arabic 3. Archaeologists in the FieldFlinders Petrie in Egypt and PalestineT. E. Lawrence in Egypt and SyriaSir Leonard WoolleyMax Mallowan and Agatha Christie4. Americans in the ‘Land of the Bible’The Wolfe ExpeditionThe Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania 1888-1890: First and Second Campaigns5. Daniel Z. Noorian: the ‘Afterlife’ of an Interpreter6. Solomon Negima: A Dragoman and his ClientsThe Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. NegimaInterpreter on the NileDragoman in PalestineOxford to Palestine and Alone Through SyriaFloyd House7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

This book is a fascinating read from beginning to end. It comes at a time when a post-colonial approach has finally begun to be applied to early archaeological work and not only to non-professional travellers. This new interest, however, has never taken the linguistic issue into account, and thus this book comes to complement the work of scholars engaging with early archaeological colonialism.

Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, UK.Maya Muratov is Assistant Professor of Art History at Adelphi University, USA.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Interpreting the Orient2. Mediating Language and Culture Dragomans and TouristsThe Profession of DragomanInnocents AbroadManaging ClientsLearning Arabic 3. Archaeologists in the FieldFlinders Petrie in Egypt and PalestineT. E. Lawrence in Egypt and SyriaSir Leonard WoolleyMax Mallowan and Agatha Christie4. Americans in the ‘Land of the Bible’The Wolfe ExpeditionThe Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania 1888-1890: First and Second Campaigns5. Daniel Z. Noorian: the ‘Afterlife’ of an Interpreter6. Solomon Negima: A Dragoman and his ClientsThe Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. NegimaInterpreter on the NileDragoman in PalestineOxford to Palestine and Alone Through SyriaFloyd House7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

This book is a fascinating read from beginning to end. It comes at a time when a post-colonial approach has finally begun to be applied to early archaeological work and not only to non-professional travellers. This new interest, however, has never taken the linguistic issue into account, and thus this book comes to complement the work of scholars engaging with early archaeological colonialism.

Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, UK.Maya Muratov is Assistant Professor of Art History at Adelphi University, USA.

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgements1. Introduction: Interpreting the Orient2. Mediating Language and Culture Dragomans and TouristsThe Profession of DragomanInnocents AbroadManaging ClientsLearning Arabic 3. Archaeologists in the FieldFlinders Petrie in Egypt and PalestineT. E. Lawrence in Egypt and SyriaSir Leonard WoolleyMax Mallowan and Agatha Christie4. Americans in the ‘Land of the Bible’The Wolfe ExpeditionThe Babylonian Expedition of the University of Pennsylvania 1888-1890: First and Second Campaigns5. Daniel Z. Noorian: the ‘Afterlife’ of an Interpreter6. Solomon Negima: A Dragoman and his ClientsThe Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. NegimaInterpreter on the NileDragoman in PalestineOxford to Palestine and Alone Through SyriaFloyd House7. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

This book is a fascinating read from beginning to end. It comes at a time when a post-colonial approach has finally begun to be applied to early archaeological work and not only to non-professional travellers. This new interest, however, has never taken the linguistic issue into account, and thus this book comes to complement the work of scholars engaging with early archaeological colonialism.