The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world's first great civilization has drawn and impressed visitors since ancient times. The Greeks were fascinated by the mysterious annual flood of the Nile that brought both water and nourishing silt to the lands along its banks, while nineteenth-century travellers were amazed by the magnificent tombs and temples of Upper Egypt.
A Nile Anthology brings together the accounts and reflections of visitors and travellers to the Nile between Luxor and Aswan through the ages, from Herodotus in the fifth century BC, and the Arab geographers of medieval times, to such nineteenth-century luminaries as Amelia Edwards, Florence Nightingale, Jean Francois Champollion, Edward Lane, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the practicalities of river travel to descriptions of the Pharaonic monuments, via the sights, sounds, and smells of the teeming souks, our writers guide us through a world and an age long gone.
Edited by:
Deborah Manley,
Sahar Abdel-Hakim
Imprint: The American University in Cairo Press
Edition: 1
Dimensions:
Height: 160mm,
Width: 120mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 270g
ISBN: 9789774167232
ISBN 10: 9774167236
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 19 January 2015
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
1. Introduction to the Nile The Boundaries of the Country, c. 960 Ebn Haukal The Delights of Nile Water, 1826 John Carne Nile Water, 1825 Dr. R.R. Madden Notes along the Nile, 1910 Pierre Loti 2. Arrangements for Traveling up the Nile Up Nile, c. 960 Ebn Haukal Just an Excursion, 1819 John Fuller The Dahabiya, 1873 Amelia Edwards Nile-boat Prayers, 1842 Sophia Poole Esprit du Nil, 1873 Amelia Edwards At Home on the Nile, 1849 Florence Nightingale Onboard a River Steamer, 1863 Lucie Duff Gordon On the Boats, 1990 Deborah Manley Only on the River, 1836 John Lloyd Stephens Life on the Nile, c. 960 Ebn Haukal 3. Weather Conditions on the Nile Melancholy and Invaders, 1851 George Melly Tracking, 1873 Amelia Edwards The Khamsin, 1849 Florence Nightingale Wind-bound, 1836 John Lloyd Stephens 4. Creatures Living Along the Nile Timseach! Timseach! 1845 Eliot Warburton Locusts, 1827 Robert Hay Creatures Come down to Drink, 1817 Captains Charles Irby and James Mangles 5. The Journey to Luxor The Constant Change of Scene, 1833 Robert Curzon Nile by Night and Dawn, 1845 Eliot Warburton So Much to See, 1848 Harriet Martineau Life in the Grottoes, 1860 Mrs. M. Carey The Temple of Hermopolis at Minya, 1813 James Silk Buckingham Asyut and Explorations, 1836 John Lloyd Stephens Coming upon Dendera by Night, 1892 Jean Francois Champollion Ikhmim: A Wondrous Thing, 1183 Ibn Jubayr 6. Luxor - Both Sides of the Nile Luxor—Ancient Thebes, 1846 Cuthbert Young A Hundred Gated Thebes, 1817 Captains Charles Irby and James Mangles Good Morning, Luxor! 1873 Amelia Edwards Luxor Temple: Grandeur and Craft, 1844 Prince Puckler-Muskau Life at Thebes, 1850 Florence Nightingale Karnak at Last, 1799 Vivant Denon Dining at Karnak, 1930 Princess Marta Bibescu Temples on the Other Side, 1819 John Fuller Medinet Habu and the Tombs, 1799 Vivant Denon Preparing to Collect the ‘Young Memnon,’ 1817 Giovanni Belzoni To the Valley of the Kings, 1904 William Jarvie To the Valley of the Kings, 1938 H.V. Morton ‘Belzoni’s Tomb,’ 1819 John Fuller Walking above the Valley, 1927 Annie Quibell On the Other Side, 1927 Constance Sitwell 7. Toward and at Aswan Upper Egypt in January, 1836 William Ramsay Raising the Water from the Nile, 1844 Edward Lane Edfu, the Ancient Apollinopolis Magna, 1827 The Modern Traveller Observed at Kom Ombo, 1848 Harriet Martineau Approach to Aswan: The Country Changes, 1817 Dr. Robert Richardson Nearly Five Hundred Miles up the Nile, 1843 Countess Hahn-Hahn Doing Business at Aswan, 1879 Villiers Stuart The Brassy Landscape of Nubia, 1927 Constance Sitwell 8. Beyond the Cataract and into Nubia The Cataract Bars the Way, 1777 Claude Etienne Savary Into Nubia, 1897 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle An Engineer at the Cataract, 1859 Isambard Kingdom Brunel The Rush of the Cataract, 1836 Lord Lindsay Philae, 1825 Dr. R.R. Madden Philae, 1852 Dean Arthur Penrhyn Stanley The Island of Philae, 1833 Robert Curzon Weather on the River, 1817 Giovanni Belzoni On First Entering the Temple at Abu Simbel, August 1, 1817 Giovanni Finati The Great Temple at Abu Simbel, 1817 Captains Charles Irby and James Mangles At the Second Cataract, 1927 Constance Sitwell The Great Rock at Abu Sir, 1836 Lord Lindsay
The stretch of the longest river in the world that nurtured the world's first great civilization has drawn and impressed visitors since ancient times. The Greeks were fascinated by the mysterious annual flood of the Nile that brought both water and nourishing silt to the lands along its banks, while nineteenth-century travelers were amazed by the magnificent tombs and temples of Upper Egypt.A Nile Anthology brings together the accounts and reflections of visitors and travelers to the Nile between Luxor and Aswan through the ages, from Herodotus in the fifth century BC, and the Arab geographers of medieval times, to such nineteenth-century luminaries as Amelia Edwards, Florence Nightingale, Jean Francois Champollion, Edward Lane, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. From the practicalities of river travel to descriptions of the pharaonic monuments, via the sights, sounds, and smells of the teeming souks, our writers guide us through a world and an age long gone.
