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In 2014, a collection of papers was found on eBay: a scrapbook, inside which was written 'Testimonial Book of Dragoman Solomon N. Negima'. The letters pasted into the testimonial book bear recommendations of Negima's services as dragoman – a combination of tourist guide and interpreter – in the Holy Land, from travellers of different nationalities, social classes, religions, genders and races.
Using these reference letters, and the first-hand published and unpublished accounts of the travellers themselves, this book tells the stories of several such tourists, including the intrepid Victorian female traveller, Ellen E. Miller, and an African–American minister, Rev. Charles T. Walker, who had been born into slavery. Between the lines of others' letters, Solomon Negima's remarkable life story also emerges: from a German mission school in Jerusalem, to the British army in the Sudan, to a successful career as a dragoman in Palestine and Syria, and finally to comfortable retirement with his son, Aziz, and daughter, Olinda, at a Mormon mission in Jerusalem.
The discovery of this unique scrapbook allows us an insight into the lives of individuals whose histories would otherwise be lost to us, and a new perspective on the history of travel in the Middle East.
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The unpublished personal scrapbook of a dragoman (tourist guide) named Solomon Negima reveals the diversity of the westerners who travelled in the 'Holy Land' in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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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).
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1350054127
- ISBN 13 9781350054127
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages280
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