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On the Nile in the golden age of travel / Andrew Humphreys.

Title
On the Nile in the golden age of travel / Andrew Humphreys.
Author
Humphreys, Andrew
Publication
Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2015.

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Ombler, Gary
Description
184 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm
Summary
Egypt; travelers writings, Arabic.
Subject
  • Thomas Cook (Firm)
  • Steamboats > Egypt
  • Nile River Delta (Egypt) > Description and travel
  • Egypt > Description and travel
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Miss Riggs goes abroad : Thomas Cook's first guided tour to Egypt and up the Nile -- Four months in a Dahabiya : early visitors under sail on the Nile -- A monopoly on the Nile : Thomas Cook and son become masters of the river -- Cook goes to war : Cook & Son's role in the British-Egyptian campaigns in Sudan -- Floating palaces : Cook & Son's new fleet of first-class Nile river steamers -- Life aboard : the attractions and diversions of cruising the Nile under steam -- Egypt, Arabia, and Sudan : competition on the Nile and three new Cook & Son steamers -- Death on the Nile : a dead pharaoh, multiple murders, and the threat of the railways -- The end of the Cook & Son era and the emergence of the modern Nile cruise business -- The Nile fleets : An A-Z of steamers used on the Nile passenger services from the 1880s until the Second World War.
ISBN
97897794166938 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 920453382
  • SCSB-12820722
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library