A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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 Ex…
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- ISBN: 978-1-85077-227-9
- EAN: 9781850772279
- Produktnummer: 22127966
- Verlag: Darf Publishers Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 530 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D3.4 cm 833 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 833
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