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Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rosemary MahoneyPublish date:2008-09-01Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316019019ISBN-10:316019011UPC:9780316019019Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Middle East, Special Interest, Essays & TraveloguesBook Topic:Egypt, AdventureSize:8.20 x 6.58 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCS09E5EHY

Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff

Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way.

Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Back Bay BooksISBN-13:9780316019019ISBN-10:316019011UPC:9780316019019Book Category:TravelBook Subcategory:Middle East, Special Interest, Essays & TraveloguesBook Topic:Egypt, AdventureSize:8.20 x 6.58 x 0.82 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCS09E5EHY
Rose Tremain's fiction has won the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music and Silence) and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Restoration) and the Orange Prize (The Colour). Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, among other periodicals, and one was selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008. Rose Tremain lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard...
Publisher: Back Bay Books

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