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Aristocrats and Archaeologists

- An Edwardian Journey on the Nile
Af: Toby Wilkinson Engelsk Hardback

Aristocrats and Archaeologists

- An Edwardian Journey on the Nile
Af: Toby Wilkinson Engelsk Hardback
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An unusually vivid first-hand account of early twentieth-century travel in Egypt

A collection of letters in a small painted box passed down through three generations of a London family is the starting point for a vivid account of a three-month journey up and down the Nile in a bygone age. The letters, like a time capsule, bring to life a lost world of Edwardian travel and social mores, of Egypt on the brink of the modern age, of the great figures of Egyptology, of aristocrats and archaeologists.

In 1907/08 Ferdinand Platt (known to his family as Ferdy) traveled to Egypt as personal physician to the ailing 8th Duke of Devonshire—one of the giant statesmen of the late Victorian age—and his family party, recounting his adventure in letters to his young wife in England. Throughout the journey Ferdy not only reported on the sights of the country around him, with his amateur Egyptologist’s eye, and the people he met along the way (including Howard Carter and Winston Churchill) but also recorded his private thoughts and intimate observations of a formal and stratified society, soon to be witness to its own extinction.

Introduced by Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson and Ferdy’s great-nephew Julian Platt, the letters open an intriguing window onto travel in Egypt during the Belle Epoque and the golden age of Egyptology.

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An unusually vivid first-hand account of early twentieth-century travel in Egypt

A collection of letters in a small painted box passed down through three generations of a London family is the starting point for a vivid account of a three-month journey up and down the Nile in a bygone age. The letters, like a time capsule, bring to life a lost world of Edwardian travel and social mores, of Egypt on the brink of the modern age, of the great figures of Egyptology, of aristocrats and archaeologists.

In 1907/08 Ferdinand Platt (known to his family as Ferdy) traveled to Egypt as personal physician to the ailing 8th Duke of Devonshire—one of the giant statesmen of the late Victorian age—and his family party, recounting his adventure in letters to his young wife in England. Throughout the journey Ferdy not only reported on the sights of the country around him, with his amateur Egyptologist’s eye, and the people he met along the way (including Howard Carter and Winston Churchill) but also recorded his private thoughts and intimate observations of a formal and stratified society, soon to be witness to its own extinction.

Introduced by Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson and Ferdy’s great-nephew Julian Platt, the letters open an intriguing window onto travel in Egypt during the Belle Epoque and the golden age of Egyptology.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 160
ISBN-13: 9789774168451
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 9774168453
Kategori: Ancient Egypt
Udg. Dato: 15 nov 2017
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 167mm
Forlag: The American University in Cairo Press
Oplagsdato: 15 nov 2017
Forfatter(e): Toby Wilkinson
Forfatter(e) Toby Wilkinson

Kategori Ancient Egypt

ISBN-13 9789774168451

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 160

Udgave

Længde 16mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 167mm

Udg. Dato 15 nov 2017

Oplagsdato 15 nov 2017

Forlag The American University in Cairo Press

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