Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, UK. She has published widely on the archaeology and culture of the near east and Egypt, including, with Maya Muratov, Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters: Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the late 19th-early 20th Centuries (Bloomsbury, 2015) and The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language and Identity in Greek Central Asia (2014).

• AcknowledgementsFiguresTimeline1. Introduction 2. The Sudan, 18853. Tourists and Pilgrims4. Alone Through Syria5. Rev. Charles T. Walker6. Floyd House7. The LettersNotesBibliographyIndex

[A] fresh perspective on travels to the Holy Land.

Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, UK. She has published widely on the archaeology and culture of the near east and Egypt, including, with Maya Muratov, Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters: Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the late 19th-early 20th Centuries (Bloomsbury, 2015) and The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language and Identity in Greek Central Asia (2014).

• AcknowledgementsFiguresTimeline1. Introduction 2. The Sudan, 18853. Tourists and Pilgrims4. Alone Through Syria5. Rev. Charles T. Walker6. Floyd House7. The LettersNotesBibliographyIndex

[A] fresh perspective on travels to the Holy Land.

Rachel Mairs is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, UK. She has published widely on the archaeology and culture of the near east and Egypt, including, with Maya Muratov, Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters: Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the late 19th-early 20th Centuries (Bloomsbury, 2015) and The Hellenistic Far East: Archaeology, Language and Identity in Greek Central Asia (2014).

• AcknowledgementsFiguresTimeline1. Introduction 2. The Sudan, 18853. Tourists and Pilgrims4. Alone Through Syria5. Rev. Charles T. Walker6. Floyd House7. The LettersNotesBibliographyIndex

[A] fresh perspective on travels to the Holy Land.