' The dryness of the air in the Victorian Turkish bath …
distinguishes it from the Turkish baths …
which are still to be found in Turkey today.'

  
1. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. — 1793. — (See bibliography for recent edition.)


  
2. Travels in Turkey, Egypt, Nubia and Palestine in 1824-27 / Richard Robert Madden . — London, 1829


  
3. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo / William Makepeace Thackeray. — 1844


  
4. Hammams: Les bains magiciens / Pascal Meunier et Samara Boustani, avec des textes de Maud Tyckaert. — Paris : Dakota, 2000


  
5. Finnish sauna / Allan Konya. — London : Architectural Press, 1987.



  
6. Pleasures of the Japanese bath / text by Peter Grilli; photographs and design by Dana Levy. — New York : Weatherhill, 1992


  
7. For example: Baths and bathing in classical antiquity/ Fikret Yegül. — New York : The Architectural History Foundation, 1995; Bathing in public in the Roman world / Garrett G Fagan. — Ann Arbor : Michigan, 1999; Thermae et balnea / Inge Nielsen. — Århus : Univ Pr, 1990


  
8. Pillars of Hercules, or, a narrative of travels in Spain & Morocco in 1848 / David Urquhart. — London : Bentley, 1850


  
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