Women Travelers on the Nile - by Deborah Manley (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>Relentlessly entertaining --Michelle Green, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Relentlessly entertaining</b>--Michelle Green, <i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/> 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 women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>I'd found kindred spirits in the women who chronicled their expeditions to Egypt in the 19th century, and spurred on by them, I'd planned my trip. . . . Beside my chair were collections of letters and memoirs written by intrepid female journalists, intellectuals and novelists, all British or European. <b>Relentlessly entertaining</b>, the women's stories reflected the Egyptomania that flourished after Napoleon invaded North Africa in 1798.--Michelle Green, <i>The New York Times</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Deborah Manley</b> is the author of a number of books on Egypt and the editor of <i>A Cairo Anthology</i> (AUC Press, 2013) and co-editor of <i>A Nile Anthology</i> (AUC Press, 2015).
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