Egypt
A Traveller's Anthology
Christopher Pick(Author)
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Published on 12. March 1992
Book
Hardback
280 pages
978-0-7195-5087-4 (ISBN)
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Description
Egypt has every ingredient to intrigue the traveller and stimulate the writer. An "antique land" littered with remains of ancient dynasties, its landscape offers a startling contrast between the green valley of the Nile and the desert to either side, while Cairo is packed with colourful images. Chrisptopher Pick has selected British, American and European visitors' writing of the last two centuries. As the 19th century progresses the roll-call of familiar names accumulates: Chateaubriand, Disraeli, Kinglake, Flaubert, Lear, Holman Hunt, Lucie Duff Gordon, Amelia Edwards. And there is no falling off in the 20th century: E.M. Forster, Vita Sackville-West, Lawrence Durrell, Freya Stark, Howard Carter and Flinders Petrie. Christopher Pick has uncovered delightful passages from more obscure visitors as well; artists, archaeologists, pro-Consuls and British soldiery both in the last war and in the years before the Suez Affair in 1956.
Rather than arrange the extracts chronologically, he takes us on a geographical progress through the country; it is a journey which will both enhance the view from a deckchair on a Nile tourist boat and slip a magic carpet under the most foursquare of armchairs back home.
Rather than arrange the extracts chronologically, he takes us on a geographical progress through the country; it is a journey which will both enhance the view from a deckchair on a Nile tourist boat and slip a magic carpet under the most foursquare of armchairs back home.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
12 pp photographs, line drawings, map
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 137 mm
Weight
435 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7195-5087-4 (9780719550874)
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Content
Precepts for travellers; first impressions; Alexandria; the journey to Cairo; Cairo - the 19th century view; Cairo - the 20th century view; the Pyramids; the Nile; at Thebes; archaeologists at work; Aswan and into Nubia; the Suez Canal; desert excursions; farewells.