A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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Stephanie Boonstra discusses the EES’ archive project that saw the rehousing and preservation of over 5000 glass-plate negatives from some of the Society’s earliest excavations in Egypt. A really fun travel book; that is, fun to read while travelling, even if one is not sailing up the Nile. I find it harder to complain about modern travel, for one thing. An oratory on so grand a scale would imply an elaborate ceremonial. A dead and deified king would doubtless have his train of priests, his daily liturgies, processions, and sacrifices. All this again implies additional accommodation, and accounts, I venture to think, for any number of extra halls and chambers. Such sculptures as yet remain on the walls of these ruined apartments are, in fact, wholly funereal and sacrificial in character. It is also to be remembered that we have here a Attempting to get my hands on a copy of this book from the public library, however I don't think it's been published since the 1890's...

are always conspicuous on the walls. The judgment-scene, and the well-known typical picture of the four races of mankind, are continually reproduced. Some tombs, 35 however, vary both in plan and decoration. That of Jennifer Speake, ed., Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2003), 379. Adjoining what may be called the monumental part of the building, we find a number of halls and chambers, the uses of which are unknown. Most writers assume that they were the private apartments of the King. Some go so far as to give the name of Temple-Palaces to all these great funerary structures. It is, however, far more probable that these Western Temples were erected in connection, though not in direct communication, with the royal tombs in the adjacent valley of Bab-el-Molûk. From the moment when it first came into sight, I had made certain that in that pyramidal mountain we should find the Tombs of the Kings — so certain, that I can scarcely believe our guide when he assures us that these cellars are the places we have come to see, and that the mountain contains not a single tomb. We alight, however; climb a steep slope; and find ourselves on the threshold of No. 17.Because it is a travelogue without characters (we don't even know most of their names and no one seems to grow or change during the trip), it was hard for me to care about any of the people, including the writer herself. She occasionally sees through her (expected) racism, Islamophobia, classism, and Eurocentrism to show us the dignity and humanity of these people in this place. Amelia Edwards formed emotional attachments almost exclusively with women. From the early 1860s onwards, she lived with Ellen Drew Braysher (1804–1892, see below), a widow 27 years her senior who had lost her husband and daughter not long after Edwards' parents had died and was to become her companion until both women died in early 1892. Another significant person in Edwards' life was Ellen Byrne, the wife of a pastor and school inspector, with whom Edwards apparently entered a love relationship during the second half of the 1860s. The relationship ended when the husband, John Rice Byrne, was assigned a different school district and the couple moved away, which left Edwards deeply distraught.

This book is a classic travelogue written by Amelia B. Edwards, a British writer and Egyptologist. The book is a record of Edwards' journey along the Nile River in Egypt and the Sudan. It provides a vivid and detailed account of the people, places, and cultures she encountered along the way. You can make a difference for for the future of Egyptian cultural heritage by supporting our work. We depend on passionate people like you. THANK YOU for your help. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article " Edwards, Amelia Ann Blandford". EES intern Elizabeth Owen writes about the Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis object card digitisation project.

of dark granite, overturned and but little injured; the second, shattered by early treasure-seekers. Some GR reviewers have been offended by things in the book. Edwards was a woman of her time, a Victorian and a daughter of empire. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile reflects that; if you can't deal with it, this book is not for you.