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On the Nile : in the golden age of travel

Humphreys, Andrew, 1965- author

2021

Overview

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.

• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Subject: Thomas Cook (Firm) / Steamboats Egypt / Nile River Valley Description and travel / Egypt Description and travel
• ISBN: 9781649031129, 1649031122

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
DT 116 .H86 2021	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE