Aristocrats and Archaeologists: An Edwardian Journey on the Nile

by Toby Wilkinson and Julian Platt

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An unusually vivid first-hand account of early twentieth-century travel in Egypt

A collection of letters in a small painted box passed down through three generations of a London family is the starting point for a vivid account of a three-month journey up and down the Nile in a bygone age. The letters, like a time capsule, bring to life a lost world of Edwardian travel and social mores, of Egypt on the brink of the modern age, of the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:9774168453

ISBN13:9789774168451

Release Date:November 2017

Publisher:American University in Cairo Press

Length:184 Pages

Weight:0.97 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.4" x 8.8"

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History Travel

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