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Title

A Nile anthology : travel writing through the centuries / edited by Deborah Manley and Sahar Abdel-Hakim ; with illustrations from The Nile boat by W.H. Bartlett.

Publication

• Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Additional Authors

• Manley, Deborah
• Abdel-Hakim, Sahar
• Bartlett, W. H. (William Henry), 1809-1854

Description

ix, 152 pages : illustrations, map; 17 cm.

Summary

The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world's first great civilization has drawn and impressed visitors since ancient times. The Greeks were fascinated by the mysterious annual flood of the Nile that brought both water and nourishing silt to the lands along its banks, while nineteenth-century travelers were amazed by the magnificent tombs and temples of Upper Egypt. A Nile Anthology brings together the accounts and reflections of visitors and travelers to the Nile between Luxor and Aswan through the ages, from Herodotus in the fifth century BC, and the Arab geographers of medieval times, to such nineteenth-century luminaries as Amelia Edwards, Florence Nightingale, Jean Francois Champollion, Edward Lane, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the practicalities of river travel to descriptions of the pharaonic monuments, via the sights, sounds, and smells of the teeming souks, our writers guide us through a world and an age long gone.

Subject

• Nile River Valley > Description and travel
• Nile River Valley > History > Sources
• Egypt > Description and travel
• Nile River > In literature

Genre/Form

• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-152).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The Nile. The boundaries of the country, c. 960 / Ebn Haukal ; The delights of Nile water, 1826 / John Carne ; Nile water, 1825 / R.R. Madden ; Notes along the Nile, 1910 / Pierre Loti -- Arrangements for traveling. Up Nile, c. 960 / Ebn Haukal ; Just an excursion, 1819 / John Fuller ; The Dahabiya, 1873 / Amelia Edwards ; Nile-boat prayers, 1842 / Sophia Poole ; Esprit du Nil, 1873 / Amelia Edwards ; At home on the Nile, 1849 / Florence Nightingale ; Onboard a river steamer, 1863 / Lucie Duff Gordon ; On the boats, 1990 / Deborah Manley ; Only on the river, 1836 / John Lloyd Stephens -- Weather conditions. Tracking, 1873 / Amelia Edwards ; The Khamsin, 1849 / Florence Nightingale ; Wind-bound, 1836 / John Lloyd Stephens -- Nile creatures. Melancholy and invaders, 1851 / George Melly ; Timseach! Timseach! 1843 / Eliot Warburton ; Crocodiles and Sekenkour, c. 960 / Ebn Haukal ;
• Locusts, 1827 / Robert Hay ; Creatures come down to drink, 1817 / Charles Irby and James Mangles -- Up to Luxor. The constant change of scene, 1833 / Robert Curzon ; Nile by night and dawn, 1843 / Eliot Warburton ; So much to see, 1848 / Harriet Martineau ; Life in the grottoes, 1860 / Mrs. M. Carey ; The Temple of Hermopolis at Minya, 1813 / James Silk Buckingham ; Asyut and explorations, 1836 / John Lloyd Stephens ; Coming upon Dendera by night, 1829 / Jean François Champollion ; Akhmim : a wondrous thing, 1183 / Ibn Jubayr -- Luxor. Luxor : ancient Thebes, 1846 / Cuthbert Young ; Hundred-gated Thebes, 1817 / Charles Irby and James Mangles ; Good morning, Luxor! 1873 / Amelia Edwards ; Luxor Temple : grandeur and craft, 1844 / Prince Puckler-Muskau ; Life at Thebes, 1850 / Florence Nightingale ; Karnak at last, 1799 / Vivant Denon ; Dining at Karnak, 1930 / Princess Marta Bibescu ;
• Temples on the Other Side, 1819 / John Fuller ; Medinet Habu and the Tombs, 1799 / Vivant Denon ; Preparing to collect the 'Young Memnon,' 1817 / Giovanni Belzoni ; To the Valley of the Kings, 1904 / William Jarvie ; To the Valley of the Kings, 1938 / H.V. Morton ; 'Belzoni's Tomb,' 1819 / John Fuller ; Walking above the Valley, 1927 / Annie Quibell ; On the Other Side, 1927 / Constance Sitwell -- On to Aswan. Upper Egypt in January, 1836 / William Ramsay ; Raising the water from the Nile, 1844 / Edward Lane ; Edfu, the ancient Apollinopolis Magna, 1827 / The modern traveller ; Observed at Kom Ombo, 1848 / Harriet Martineau ; Approach to Aswan, 1817 / Robert Richardson ; Impressions of Aswan, 1844 / Countess Hahn-Hahn ; Doing business at Aswan, 1879 / Villiers Stuart ; The brassy landscape of Nubia, 1827 / Constance Sitwell --
• The Cataract and Nubia. The Cataract bars the way, 1777 / Claude Etienne Savary ; Into Nubia, 1897 / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; An engineer at the Cataract, 1859 / Isambard Kingdom Brunel ; The rush of the Cataract, 1836 / Lord Lindsay ; Philae, 1825 / R.R. Madden ; Philae, 1852 / Arthur Penrhyn Stanley ; the Island of Philae, 1833 / Robert Curzon ; Reaching Derr, 1817 / Giovanni Belzoni ; Entering the Temple at Abu Simbel, 1817 / Giovanni Finati ; The Great Temple at Abu Simbel, 1817 / Charles Irby and James Mangles ; At the Second Cataract, 1927 / Constance Sitwell ; The Great Rock at Abu Sir, 1836 / Lord Lindsey.

ISBN

• 9789774167232
• 9774167236

LCCN

^^2015487939

OCLC

• 906121514
• SCSB-10544153

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library