Andrew Humphreys

On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel

Sprache: Englisch.
kartoniert , 184 Seiten
ISBN 1649031122
EAN 9781649031129
Veröffentlicht September 2021
Verlag/Hersteller American University in Cairo Press
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"This is an illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile. Early travelers took a dahabiya, an elegant triangular-sailed houseboat, and leisurely meandered from 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 Agatha Christie, whose staging of a death on the Nile only added to the allure."--Provided by publishe

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