On The Nile In The Golden Age Of Travel

Author : Andrew Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781649031129
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel written by Andrew Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Alain Blottière
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774168987
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vintage Egypt: Cruising the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel written by Alain Blottière and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alain Blottiere
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 2080301136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vintage Egypt written by Alain Blottiere and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As wealthy tourists descended upon Egypt in the early-twentieth-century, a well-heeled jet set emerged in Cairo and Alexandria. Period photographs celebrate the glamour: a Bugatti at the foot of the pyramids, high tea served in jasmine-draped gardens. . .

Author : Alain Blottiere
Publisher : Flammarion-Pere Castor
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vintage Egypt written by Alain Blottiere and published by Flammarion-Pere Castor. This book was released on 2003-11-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As wealthy tourists descended upon Egypt in the early-twentieth-century, a well-heeled jet set emerged in Cairo and Alexandria. Period photographs celebrate the glamour: a Bugatti at the foot of the pyramids, high tea served in jasmine-draped gardens. . .

Author : Alexis Gregory
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780304351534
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Travel 1880-1939 written by Alexis Gregory and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks back on the golden age of the ocean liner, luxury train, private yacht, and zeppelin, and describes the experiences of travelers of that period

Author : Andrew Humphreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774167195
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grand Hotels of Egypt written by Andrew Humphreys and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Riviera, the hotels of Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan were always about far more than just bed and board. As bridgeheads for African exploration, neutral territories for conducting diplomacy, headquarters for armies, providers of home comforts for writers, painters, scholars, and archaeologists in the field, and social hubs for an international elite, more of importance happened in Egypt's hotels than in any other setting. It was through the hotels that visitors from the west--the earliest adventurers, then the travelers and, finally, the tourists--experienced the Orient. This book tells the stories of Egypt's historic hotels (including the Cecil, Shepheard's, the Mena House, Gezira Palace, Semiramis, Winter Palace, and Cataract) and some of the people who stayed in them, from Amelia Edwards, Lucie Duff Gordon and Florence Nightingale to Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, and TE Lawrence.

Author : Andrew Williamson
Publisher : Thomas Cook
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Age of Travel written by Andrew Williamson and published by Thomas Cook. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on material in the 150-year-old archive of Thomas Cook, this work is a voyage through the romantic era of travel, from the mid-Victorian period to the 1950s. There are 40 full-page poster reproductions, and travel memorabilia, from tickets to early tourists' photographs.

Author : TOBY. WILKINSON
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781509858736
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World Beneath the Sands written by TOBY. WILKINSON and published by Picador. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid account of the men and women who revealed the treasures of Ancient Egypt to the world, from the first decipherment of hieroglyphics to the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun.

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 : Laurie Krebs
Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 1846860407
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We're Sailing Down the Nile written by Laurie Krebs and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the riverboat sails down the Nile River, remnants of Egypt's long history and aspects of its present culture are revealed on its banks. Includes end notes with additional information about ancient Egyptian culture.