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Humphreys Andrew - On The Nile In The Golden Age Of Travel - Paperback
Humphreys Andrew - On The Nile In The Golden Age Of Travel - Paperback
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Description: A colorfully illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile new in paperback Since Antony and Cleopatra honeymooned on the Nile on a gilded barge visitors to Egypt have taken to the river as the best way to experience the country's wonders. Early travelers took a dahabiya an elegant triangular - sailed houseboat and leisurely meandered from riverside site to site for three months or more. Then from the late nineteenth century Thomas Cook of Leicester England revolutionized the journey with a fleet of specially built paddle steamers. For the next sixty years these floating palaces with their private cabins and dining smoking and viewing salons red - uniformed dragoman guides and organized donkey excursions carried the aristocratic moneyed and adventurous of international society of the time. Using period photography and colorful vintage posters and advertising material this book tells the story of the people the places and the boats from pioneering Nile travelers like Amelia Edwards and Lucie Duff Gordon through to famed later passengers such as Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle and of course Agatha Christie whose staging of a death on the Nile only added to the allure.
Title: On The Nile In The Golden Age Of Travel
Author(s): Humphreys Andrew
Publisher: American University In Cairo Press
Barcode: 9781649031129
Pages: 184 Pages, 274 Illustrations, Including 110 In Color
Publication Date: 9/7/2021
Category: Archaeology
Description: A colorfully illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile new in paperback Since Antony and Cleopatra honeymooned on the Nile on a gilded barge visitors to Egypt have taken to the river as the best way to experience the country's wonders. Early travelers took a dahabiya an elegant triangular - sailed houseboat and leisurely meandered from riverside site to site for three months or more. Then from the late nineteenth century Thomas Cook of Leicester England revolutionized the journey with a fleet of specially built paddle steamers. For the next sixty years these floating palaces with their private cabins and dining smoking and viewing salons red - uniformed dragoman guides and organized donkey excursions carried the aristocratic moneyed and adventurous of international society of the time. Using period photography and colorful vintage posters and advertising material this book tells the story of the people the places and the boats from pioneering Nile travelers like Amelia Edwards and Lucie Duff Gordon through to famed later passengers such as Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle and of course Agatha Christie whose staging of a death on the Nile only added to the allure.
Title: On The Nile In The Golden Age Of Travel
Author(s): Humphreys Andrew
Publisher: American University In Cairo Press
Barcode: 9781649031129
Pages: 184 Pages, 274 Illustrations, Including 110 In Color
Publication Date: 9/7/2021
Category: Archaeology
