' 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