Scottish Enlightenment Abroad

Janet Starkey MA (Hons), MPhil, PhD, retired lecturer from Durham University. A founder member of the Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE), she has published many edited volumes and articles on the Middle East.

"The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad provides a scholarly, remarkably wideranging and thorough guide to the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century and to the achievements of Alexander and Patrick Russell as physicians, natural historians, orientalists, collectors of Arabic manuscripts and recorders of scientific and social phenomena."Robert Irwin in Times Literary Supplement 26 April 2019."I learned a great deal about this intriguing family and hope to read at least one if not both editions of The Natural History of Aleppo at some point. The book also made me think more broadly about the Scottish Enlightenment beyond the mayor players - the Hutchesons, Humes, Smiths and so on..."Arby Ted Siraki in The Newsletter of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Spring 2019.