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Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology
Deborah Manley
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Description for Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology
Hardcover. Editor(s): Manley, Founding Member Deborah (ASTENE (Association for the Study of Travelers in Egypt and the Near East) Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE) Association for the Study of Travel in Egypt and the Near East (ASTENE)). BIC Classification: 1DN; WTH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go. From Eliza Fay's description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney's daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by ... Read more
Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go. From Eliza Fay's description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney's daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774167874
SKU
V9789774167874
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About Deborah Manley
Deborah Manley is the author of a number of books on Egypt and the editor of A Cairo Anthology (AUC Press, 2013) and co-editor of A Nile Anthology (AUC Press, 2015).
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