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On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel
Engelsk
Bogcover for On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel af Andrew Humphreys, 9781649031129
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Engelsk
Sider:
184
ISBN-13:
9781649031129
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1649031122
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Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2021
Størrelse i cm:
19,1 x 23,9 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2021
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On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel

Engelsk
Paperback 2021
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A colorfully illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile, new in paperback

Since Antony and Cleopatra honeymooned on the Nile on a gilded barge, visitors to Egypt have taken to the river as the best way to experience the country’s wonders. Early travelers took a dahabiya, an elegant triangular-sailed houseboat, and leisurely meandered from riverside 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, of course, Agatha Christie, whose staging of a death on the Nile only added to the allure.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
184
ISBN-13:
9781649031129
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1649031122
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 sep 2021
Størrelse i cm:
19,1 x 23,9 x 2,1
Oplagsdato:
7 sep 2021
Forfatter(e):
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