/13077) Thomas Cook Ltd. Figure 2: Cover of Cook's tourists' handbook for Egypt, the Nile, and the Desert (London: T. Cook & Son, 1897) Credited with being “the founder of modern tourism,” Thomas Cook established his tour company in England in 1841...
military occupation, and Cook’s Egyptian travel. The Nile had become the favourite winter resort of westerners. A traveller could leave his native shores and find the comforts of home aboard a steamship and in luxury hotels bathed in desert sunshine” (44...

://cnx.org/content/col10371/1.3> 13 crocodile asleep upon its sandy shore, with the superb ruins of Philae in the distance. The scene changes, and you are in the Desert. . .. �(qtd. by Evans). Beginning in the 1870s, photographers based in Egypt such as G. Lekegian and J...
also published a popular textbook, Ancient Times: A History of the Early World (1916). Breasted made an important contribution to the ˝eld of ancient Near Eastern studies by establishing the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, which became a...