The Nile.A Traveller's Anthology

Manley, Deborah

Description:

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

Details:

  • Publisher: Cassell
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1991
  • Edition: 1st UK Edition
  • Jacket Condition: Fine
  • Binding Condition: Fine
  • Overall Condition: Fine
  • Size: 160 X 240mm
  • Lot No: 72
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