Abstract
Czechoslovak Scholars in the Orient volume II continues the travel history and travelogue analyses presented in volume I. It includes biographies and travels of National Museum scientists (J.
Petrbok, J. Baum, J.
Obenberger, V. J.
Staněk, A. Pilát, O. Štěpánek, J.
Mařan, K. Táborský), the amateur Orientalist and colloquial Arabic scholar V.
Zelenka, artist – sculptor J. V.
Foit, and the German-Bohemian Egyptologist T. Hopfner.
The volume concludes with analytical studies concerning scholarly travel organisation and impact, female scholarly travels, the Orient, travels as part of professional career and eventually collector travellers.