Women Travelers On The Nile

Author : Deborah Manley
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617979872
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Travelers on the Nile written by Deborah Manley and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Relentlessly entertaining"—Michelle Green, The New York Times Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go. From Eliza Fay’s description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney’s daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.

Author : Deborah Manley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781617979880
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Travelers on the Nile written by Deborah Manley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Relentlessly entertaining"" -Michelle Green, The New York Times.

Author : Deborah Manley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789774167874
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Travelers on the Nile written by Deborah Manley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go. From Eliza Fay's description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney's daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.

Author : Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316007323
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down the Nile written by Rosemary Mahoney and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2007-07-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians. Egyptian women don't row on the Nile, and tourists aren't allowed to for safety's sake. Mahoney endures extreme heat during the day, and a terror of crocodiles while alone in her boat at night. Whether she's confronting deeply held beliefs about non-Muslim women, finding connections to past chroniclers of the Nile, or coming to the dramaticm realization that fear can engender unwarranted violence, Rosemary Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world, her glorious prose, and her wit never fail to captivate.

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 : Deborah Manley
Publisher : Amer Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774165702
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Travelers in Egypt written by Deborah Manley and published by Amer Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's accounts of their travels, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth century, and Egypt was a popular destination. Women had more time to watch and describe and they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. From Eliza Fay's description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney's daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by over forty women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.

Author : Joan Rees
Publisher : Stacey International Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780948695742
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women on the Nile written by Joan Rees and published by Stacey International Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By combining extracts from their most famous works with Rees' insightful essays, Women on the Nile illuminates the life and writings of three remarkable women and captures something of the romance of 19th century travel to the East. Harriet Martineau was a doughty and influential campaigner for multiple social causes; Florence Nightingale became a universally acclaimed reformer of nursing and hospital practices; Amelia Edwards, formerly a novelist and prolific professional writer, returned from Egypt to found the Egypt Exploration Society and endow the first Chair of Egyptology at a British University. All three were independent-minded women of strong character and exceptional gifts. They were accomplished writers, each with a distinctive style, and their accounts of their Nile journeys are richly individual and full of life, thought and observation.

Author : Amelia B. Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Thousand Miles Up the Nile written by Amelia B. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kate Pullinger
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847652425
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mistress Of Nothing written by Kate Pullinger and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Duff Gordon is the toast of Victorian London. But when her debilitating tuberculosis means exile, she and her devoted lady's maid, Sally, set sail for Egypt. It is Sally who describes, with a mixture of wonder and trepidation, the odd ménage marshalled by the resourceful Omar, which travels down the Nile to a new life in Luxor. As Lady Duff Gordon undoes her stays and takes to native dress, throwing herself into weekly salons; language lessons; excursions to the tombs; Sally too adapts to a new world, affording her heady and heartfelt freedoms never known before. But freedom is a luxury that a maid can ill-afford, and when Sally grasps more than her status entitles her to, she is brutally reminded that she is mistress of nothing.

Author : Toby Wilkinson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408839938
Total Pages : 406 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 406 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.