Death and disorder in Muhammad Sadiq's Star of the Hajj: steamships, quarantine and their impact on the Muslim body -- Modern pilgrims in Egypt and the Holy Land: a case study -- Facing travels, shaping worlds: three 17th-century Mesopotamian travel accounts -- From Baghdad to Constantinople on horseback: a journey by Claudius and Mary Rich, October -- December 1813 -- Pascal Coste and Eugène Flandin: Voyage en Perse -- Khalil Aga: lost American on the Nile -- An American tourist in 1839: Philip Rhinelander visits the Mediterranean -- 'The contagion followed, and vanquish'd them': plague, travellers and lazarettos -- The 6th Earl of Hopetoun prepares for the Nile -- The tedious camel -- Travel clubs in the era of the First Czechoslovak Republic.