A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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Su travesía por el río Nilo a bordo de la dahabiya Philae y las ciudades, lugares y centros de interés de carácter egiptológico por los que pasa. Two small ravines branch off, one to the right, one to the left; and in both, at the foot of the rocks, there are here and there to be seen square openings, like cellar-doors, half sunk below the surface, and seeming to shoot downwards into the bowels of the earth. While it is not a steampunk novel it gives a very good feel to what that eras actual travel was like and how people viewed travel and wrote about it.

The old man who drives them sits in the middle of the cog-wheel, and goes slowly round as if he was being roasted. A priest in a white vestment embroidered on the breast and hood with a red Maltese cross, was squatting on his heels at the entrance to the adytum. The gentlemen smoked chibouques and cigarettes, while for us there were gorgeous rose-water narghilehs with long flexible tubes and amber mouthpieces. Some native musicians played in the anteroom during dinner; and when we rose from the table, we washed our hands as before.Egypt is the land of strange mountains; and here is one which reproduces on a giant scale every feature of the pyramid of Ouenephes at Sakkarah. Another flight of steps leads now to a succession of passages and halls, some smaller, some larger, some vaulted, some supported on pillars. Amelia fue una mujer victoriana culta, curiosa, avanzada a su época y que gracias a la fascinación que sintió por Egipto y tras el éxito de este libro que escribió sobre su viaje llegó a fundar la Egypt Exploration Society y creó la primera cátedra de egiptología en el University Collage de Londres. The priest came to the door of the screen; looked at the congregation; folded his hands palm to palm; went up to the threshold of the apse, and began reciting what sounded like a litany. An English novelist, journalist, lady traveller and Egyptologist, born to an Irish mother and a father who had been a British Army officer before becoming a banker.

The main difference is that Thomas Cook had only recently started trips to Egypt so in 1873 there were very few tourists whereas now there are hoards of tour parties at the main sights. We then, each in turn, held our hands over the basin; had water poured on them; and received a towel apiece.

El libro narra las experiencias de los exportadores británicos del Siglo XIX en Egipto y fue escrito por la fundadora de la Egypt Exploration Society y creadora de la primera Cátedra de Egiptología del Reino Unido. It's a travel journal, after all: no plot, character development, conflict, climax, final reveal, et cetera. But there was a solemn secrecy about certain of the Arabs, and a conscious look about some of the visitors, and an air of awakened vigilance about the government officials, which savoured of mystery.

Interactions with Copts were very interesting - descendants of ancient Egyptians who had exchanged their gods for Christianity. Champollion copying whatever might be useful for his Egyptian grammar, and Rosellini, the new words that furnished materials for his dictionary.A more unprepossessing population I would never wish to see - the men half stealth, half insolent; the women bold and fierce; the children filthy, sickly, stunted, and stolid. Mustapha Aga entertained all the English dahabeeyahs, and all the English dahabeeyahs entertained Mustapha Aga. And there, writing those charming letters that delight the world Lady Duff Gordon lingered through the last few winters of her life. Some, worn at the base, and towering like ruined pyramids above, remind us of tombs on the Appian Way. Please note that the Trotamundas reprint is in two volumes, Part 1 and Part 2 so you will need them both.