Front Matter -- Copyright Page / Alastair Hamilton -- Dedication / Alastair Hamilton -- Acknowledgements / Alastair Hamilton -- Abbreviations / Alastair Hamilton -- Introduction / Alastair Hamilton -- Giornale nel quale egli racconta le sue osservationi le più curiose, che egli ha fatto sopra li luoghi e paesi per dove egli è passato e li avenimenti li più memorabili che gli sono arrivati nel suo viaggio in Levante / Alastair Hamilton -- Parte prima del giornale / Alastair Hamilton -- La seconda parte del giornale / Alastair Hamilton -- La terza parte del giornale / Alastair Hamilton -- Appendix 1 / Alastair Hamilton -- Appendix 2 / Alastair Hamilton -- Back Matter -- Glossary / Alastair Hamilton -- Bibliography / Alastair Hamilton -- Index / Alastair Hamilton.

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Johann Michael Wansleben’s Travels in the Levant, 1671–1674 is a hitherto unpublished version of a remarkable description of Egypt and the Levant by the German scholar traveller Wansleben, or Vansleb (as he was known in France). He set out for the East in 1671 to collect manuscripts and antiquities for the French king and also produced the best study of the Copts to have appeared to date. This book recounts his travels in Syria, Turkey and Egypt, his everyday life in Cairo, and his anthropological and archeological discoveries which include the Graeco-Roman Ǧabbārī cemetery in Alexandria, the Roman city of Antinopolis on the Nile, the Coptic monastery of St Anthony on the Red Sea and the Red and White monasteries in Upper Egypt.