A Winter On The Nile

Author : Anthony Sattin
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446474399
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Winter on the Nile written by Anthony Sattin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents over her refusal to marry, she had been offered a lifeline by family friends who suggested a trip to Egypt, a country which she had always longed to visit. By an extraordinary coincidence, taking the same boat from Alexandria was an unpublished French writer, Gustave Flaubert. Like Nightingale, he was at the crossroads in his life that was to lead to future acclaim and literary triumph. Egypt for him represented escape and freedom as well as inspiration. But as a wealthy young man travelling with male friends, he had access to an altogether different Egpyt: where Nightingale sought out temples and dispensaries, Flaubert visited brothels and harems. In this beguiling book, Anthony Sattin takes a key moment in the lives of two extraordinary figures on the brink of international fame, and provides a fascinating insight into the early days of travel to one of the greatest tourist destinations on the planet.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Winter on the Nile written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Twigger
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466853905
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Nile written by Robert Twigger and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From religion, to language, to the stories rooted in our faith and history books, the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind's tales. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Red Nile navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river, exploring this unique breeding ground for creativity, power clashes, and constant change. Seasoned historical writer Robert Twigger connects the comprehensive history of the Nile with his personal experience of living in Egypt while researching the Nile's historical origins. Twigger covers the entirety of the river, charting the length of the Nile from its disputed origins through Africa on a whirlwind tour of the rulers, explorers, conquerors, generals, and novelists who painted the Nile "red." Both comprehensive and intimate, this narrative guides readers through history by way of the mighty river known across the world. The result of this meticulously researched book is an all-inclusive history of this epic river and the incredible connections throughout history. The stories of excess, love, passion, splendor, and violence are what make the Nile so engaging, even after centuries of change.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Winter on the Nile written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Dent Bell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Winter on the Nile, in Egypt, and in Nubia written by Charles Dent Bell and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Warner
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5041206074
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Winter on the Nile written by Charles Warner and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Florence Nightingale
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802115324
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from Egypt written by Florence Nightingale and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of letters written during a journey to Egypt describing the author's views on the country and its history and people

Author : Toby Wilkinson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408839938
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nile written by Toby Wilkinson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life – fishing, farming, flooding – continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta. The country is a palimpsest, every age has left its trace: as we pass the Nilometer on the island of Elephantine which since the days of the Pharaohs has measured the height of Nile floodwaters to predict the following season's agricultural yield and set the parameters for the entire Egyptian economy, the wonders of Giza which bear the scars of assault by nineteenth-century archaeologists and the modern-day unbridled urban expansion of Cairo – and in Egypt's earliest art (prehistoric images of fish-traps carved into cliffs) and the Arab Spring (fought on the bridges of Cairo) – the Nile is our guide to understanding the past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing land.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Winter on the Nile written by Charles Dudley Warner and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book My Winter on the Nile written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: