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    Women travelers on the Nile : an anthology of travel writing through the centuries / edited by Deborah Manley.

    Contributor(s): Manley, Deborah [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Dar el kutub ; no. 25917/15Publisher: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: ix, 150 pages : illustrations ; 17 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9774167872; 9789774167874Subject(s): Egypt -- Description and travel | Nile River Valley -- Description and travel | Women travelers -- Egypt -- History | Women travelers -- Nile River Valley -- History | Travel | Women travelers | Egypt | Nile River ValleyGenre/Form: Travel writing. | History. | Travel writing.DDC classification: 916.2043082 LOC classification: DT54 | .W69 2016
    Contents:
    Alexandria, the Delta, and Suez -- Cairo -- The environs of Cairo -- Up the Nile from Cairo -- Nubia and beyond -- Northward down the Nile -- Luxor and ancient Thebes -- Egypt beyond the Nile.
    Summary: 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.
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    "Dar el Kutub No. 25917/15"--Title page verso.

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150).

    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.

    Alexandria, the Delta, and Suez -- Cairo -- The environs of Cairo -- Up the Nile from Cairo -- Nubia and beyond -- Northward down the Nile -- Luxor and ancient Thebes -- Egypt beyond the Nile.

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