A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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The author was a bit different for her time, so her take on traveling in Egypt is fascinating. At times she is forward-thinking and other times buys into the thinking of her class at the time. I laughed out loud at a passage where she embraces the then-recent deciphering of hieroglyphics. She compares people who still think they can't be translated to people who think the earth is flat. Go with science is her thought. Brilliant. Would love to know what she would make of modern-day flat-earthers. Much harder to get past was her whole assertion that the British take things for their museums for study and preservation, that the French take things for their museums only for glory, and Arabs just steal things for profit. There's an idea that hasn't aged well. Most travellers moor for a day or two at Karnak, and thence make their excursion to Bab-el-Molûk. By so doing they lose one of the most interesting rides in the neighbourhood of Thebes. L. and the Writer started from Luxor one morning about an hour after daybreak, crossing the river at the usual the confederate princes of Asia Minor then lying in ambush near Kadesh; 15 and it was hither that he returned in

To-night we are all Arabs," said Mustapha Aga, as he showed us where to sit. "We drink Nile water, and we eat with our fingers."

Classic Victorian Travel in Egypt

Para leerlo poco a poco y tomarselo con calma, porque es tan completo en descripciones que puede hacerse pesado. Tiene muchísimas ilustraciones preciosas de la autora que enriquecen muchísimo la narración. Además cuenta con notas de la traductora Rosa Pujol actualizando datos o informaciones. Si encima complementas las lectura con fotos, vídeos, documentales o visitas online a los monumentos nombrados ya es un viaje de diez.

We now observed with some surprise that every word of the lessons as they were read in Coptic was translated, viva voce, into Arabic by a youth in a surplice, who stood against the screen facing the congregation. He had no book, but went on fluently enough, following close upon the voice of the reader. This, we were told, was done only during the reading of the lessons, the Gospel, and the Lord's Prayer. The rest of the service is performed without translation; and, the Coptic being a dead language, is consequently unintelligible to the people. We now returned to the large hall, and not being accomplished in the art and mystery of sitting cross-legged, curled ourselves up on the divans as best we could. The Writer was conducted by Mustapha Aga to the corner seat at the upper end of the room, where he said the Princess of Wales had sat when their Royal Highnesses dined with him the year before. We were then served with pipes and coffee. The gentlemen smoked chibouques and cigarettes, while for us there were gorgeous rose-water narghilehs with long flexible tubes and amber mouthpieces. L. had the Princess's pipe, and smoked it very cleverly all the evening. 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.These tableaux are supposed to illustrate the home-life of Rameses III, and to confirm the domestic character of the pavilion. Even the scarab-selling Arabs that haunt the ruins, even the donkey-boys of Luxor, call it the Hareem of the Sultan. Modern science, however, threatens to dispel one at least of these pleasant fancies.

The central, or gateway-tower, is substantially perfect. The Writer, with help, got as high as the first chamber; the ceiling of which is painted in a rich and intricate pattern, as in imitation of mosaic. The top room is difficult of access; but can be reached by a good climber. Our friend F. W. S., who made his way up there a year or two before, found upon the In 1874 reisde Amelia Edwards met de boot de Nijl af, met een klein reisgezelschap en een grote bemanning die roeide, trok, eten verzorgde en met lokale overheden onderhandelde. De eerste ontdekkingen in Egypte waren gedaan, Champollion had de hiëroglyfen ontcijferd, het eerste museum van oudheden was ingericht in Caïro (maar veel waren al naar het buitenland verscheept).naval officers sent out by the French in 1831 to remove the obelisk which now stands in the Place de la Concorde.