In this book you read of the Nile, its people and its treasures as these travellers saw it..You escape into E.M.Forster\'s or Robert Curzon\'s Alexandria; share Flaubert\'s first night on the river; visit a cattle market with William Golding; suffer with G.W.Steevens on his way to join Kitchener in Khartoum; sail a felucca with Alan Pryce Jones in the thirties: experience shipboard fleas(Coptic ones at that!) with Harriet Martineau: learn about riverside life from Herodotus; ward off antiquity sellers with Hercule Poirot, and enjoy the adventures of Amelia Edwards who went 1000 miles up the Nile just to escape from a damp summer in Europe
252 pages text with illustrations
- Jacket Condition: Fine
- Binding Condition: Fine
- Overall Condition: Fine
- Size: 160 X 240mm
- Sold By: Quathlamba Winds Books
- Contact Person: Ian & Yvonne Halford
- Country: United Kingdom
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 01743 361772
- Preferred Payment Methods: Paypal-Cheques-Direct Transfer to UK Bank.
- Trade Associations: SABDA
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