TY  - BOOK
AU  - Manley,Deborah
TI  - Women travelers on the Nile: an anthology of travel writing through the centuries 
T2  - Dar el kutub
SN  - 9774167872
AV  - DT54 .W69 2016
U1  - 916.2043082 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Cairo, New York
PB  - The American University in Cairo Press
KW  - Women travelers
KW  - Egypt
KW  - History
KW  - Nile River Valley
KW  - Travel
KW  - fast
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Travel writing
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Dar el Kutub No. 25917/15"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150); 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
N2  - 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
ER  -