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A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

Name: A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
Brand: Darf Publishers
SKU: 9781850772279
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Contributors:

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

Publisher:

Darf Publishers

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Travel

Book Subcategory:

Middle East

Book Topic:

Egypt

Edition Description:

Revised Edition

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Release Date:

1993-05-01

ISBN 13:

9781850772279

Weight:

1.8 lbs

Size:

8.50 x 5.50 x 1.31 inches

Pages:

530

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Of all those admirable and doughty Victorian lady-travellers Miss Amelia Edwards is surely one of the brightest lights, and this, her classic introduction to ancient Egypt, still stands up like an obelisk above the bulk of learned tomes and endlessly churned out travel guides. successful writer and a talented artist and musician when, in middle-age, bad weather unexpectedly changed her life. Her painting holiday in France sabotaged, she took a boat from Marseilles to Alexandria, and hired a dahabiyah to venture up the Nile. The rest of her life she devoted tirelessly to the setting-up of professional excavation in Egypt, founding the Egypt Exploration Fund (with Reginald Stuart Poole) and establishing the first chair of Egyptology in England at University College, initially occupied by her protege Flinders Petrie. of Egypt are daily unfolded before her, is lost from the subsequent research and painstaking erudition she crams into these pages. The joy is as fresh as when first felt, and the reader feels privileged to share these experiences with her.

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