A Nile anthology : travel writing through the centuries

Weitere Verfasser: Manley, Deborah.
Abdel-Hakim, Sahar.
Bartlett, W. H. 1809-1854 , [IllustratorIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2015.
Umfang/Format: ix, 152 p. : ill., map ; 17 cm.
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Nile.
  • The boundaries of the country,
  • c. 960 /
  • Ebn Haukal ;
  • The delights of Nile water,
  • 1826 /
  • John Carne ;
  • Nile water,
  • 1825 /
  • R.R. Madden ;
  • Notes along the Nile,
  • 1910 /
  • Pierre Loti
  • Arrangements for traveling.
  • 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
  • Weather conditions.
  • Tracking,
  • 1873 /
  • Amelia Edwards ;
  • The Khamsin,
  • 1849 /
  • Florence Nightingale ;
  • Wind-bound,
  • 1836 /
  • John Lloyd Stephens
  • Nile creatures.
  • Melancholy and invaders,
  • 1851 /
  • George Melly ;
  • Timseach! Timseach!
  • 1843 /
  • Eliot Warburton ;
  • Crocodiles and Sekenkour,
  • c. 960 /
  • Ebn Haukal ;
  • Locusts,
  • 1827 /
  • Robert Hay ;
  • Creatures come down to drink,
  • 1817 /
  • Charles Irby and James Mangles
  • Up to Luxor.
  • The constant change of scene,
  • 1833 /
  • Robert Curzon ;
  • Nile by night and dawn,
  • 1843 /
  • 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,
  • 1829 /
  • Jean Francois Champollion ;
  • Akhmim : a wondrous thing,
  • 1183 /
  • Ibn Jubayr
  • Luxor.
  • Luxor : ancient Thebes,
  • 1846 /
  • Cuthbert Young ;
  • Hundred-gated Thebes,
  • 1817 /
  • 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
  • On to 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,
  • 1817 /
  • Robert Richardson ;
  • Impressions of Aswan,
  • 1844 /
  • Countess Hahn-Hahn ;
  • Doing business at Aswan,
  • 1879 /
  • Villiers Stuart ;
  • The brassy landscape of Nubia,
  • 1827 /
  • Constance Sitwell
  • The Cataract and 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 /
  • R.R. Madden ;
  • Philae,
  • 1852 /
  • Arthur Penrhyn Stanley ;
  • the Island of Philae,
  • 1833 /
  • Robert Curzon ;
  • Reaching Derr,
  • 1817 /
  • Giovanni Belzoni ;
  • Entering the Temple at Abu Simbel,
  • 1817 /
  • Giovanni Finati ;
  • The Great Temple at Abu Simbel,
  • 1817 /
  • Charles Irby and James Mangles ;
  • At the Second Cataract,
  • 1927 /
  • Constance Sitwell ;
  • The Great Rock at Abu Sir,
  • 1836 /
  • Lord Lindsey.