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Dear All, Would you have a favourite line or two to recommend? Replies to Chrissie, please, and apologies for any cross-postings. Remember that the original request was not to the RK list, so credit the author... Regards, John ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Chrissie Bradstreet <[log in to unmask]> Date: Apr 27, 2006 10:58 AM Subject: odour and the East To: [log in to unmask] Hi, I am looking for particularly evocative descriptions of the odours of the Near, Middle or Far East written c.1880 - 1905. eg: spices, perfumes, incense, market and food smells, floral odours, body odour, dirt, animals, coffee, smoking etc etc. These descriptions of place could be in travel diaries, journal articles, travel guides, letters, or novels -- any written source really! Even better still --- in travel accounts by Orientalist artists. And I am still looking for any sources relating to the odour of pomegranates! Thanks, Christina Bradstreet School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media Birkbeck College <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] <http://www.19.bblk.ac.uk/> www.19.bbk.ac.uk