A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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At the age of 30, her parents died within weeks of each other, leaving Edwards completely unattached. She’d only entertained marriage once, being engaged to a nice gentlemen she felt no particular affection for. So she called off the engagement and never pursued another. She seemed happy with her lot of being a spinster, and embraced the freedoms of anunattachedwoman with enthusiasm (Adams 2010:21). Travel to Egypt was titular king, in the hereditary sense, from his birth 25 and during the lifetime of his father, is

point and thence riding northwards along the bank, with the Nile on the one hand, and the corn-lands on the other. In the course of such rides, one discovers the almost incredible fertility of the Thebaid. Every inch of arable ground is turned to account. All that grows, grows lustily. The barley ripples in one uninterrupted sweep from Medinet Habu to a point half-way between the Ramesseum and Gournah. Next come plantations of tobacco, cotton, hemp, linseed, maize and lentils, so closely set, so rich in promise, that the country looks as if it were laid out in allotment grounds for miles together. Where the rice crop has been gathered, clusters of temporary huts have sprung up in the clearings; for the fellahîn come out from their crowded villages in "the sweet o' the year," and live in the midst of the crops which now they guard, and which presently they will reap. The walls of these summer huts are mere wattled fences of Indian corn straw, with bundles of the same laid lightly across the top by way of roofing. This pastoral world is everywhere up and doing. Here are men plying the shâdûf by the river's brink; women spinning in the sun; children playing; dogs barking; larks soaring and singing overhead. Against the foot of the cliffs yonder, where the vegetation ends and the tombs begin, there flows a calm river edged with palms. A few months ago, we should have been deceived by that fairy water. We know now that it is the mirage. 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. It was a real thrill for me to read this book. It's a must-read if you have any interest in Egyptian history. If you don't, this isn't the book for you. If you have a passing interest, this is a good book to skim, and maybe skip over the parts where the author gets pretty detailed.the confederate princes of Asia Minor then lying in ambush near Kadesh; 15 and it was hither that he returned in armé d'un dard avec lequel il transperce les ennemis d'Osiris, est appelé Horus le Justicier." — Dict. Arch. P. P IERRET, article of dark granite, overturned and but little injured; the second, shattered by early treasure-seekers. Rees, Joan (1995). Women on the Nile: Writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Amelia Edwards. Rubicon Press.

The inner walls of this great courtyard, and the outer face of the north-east wall, are covered with sculptures outlined, so to say, in intaglio, and relieved in the hollow, so that the forms, though rounded, remain level with the general surface. In these tableaux the old world lives again. Rameses III, his sons and nobles, his armies, his foes, play once more the brief drama of life and death. Great battles are fought; great victories are won; the slain are counted; the captured drag their chains behind the victor's chariot; the king triumphs, is At the time of Edwards's visit, the Dolomites were described as terra incognita and even educated persons had never heard of them. [9] This journey was described in her book A Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites (1873), later entitled Untrodden Peaks and Infrequent Valleys. [7] During the expedition, Edwards also sought works of Titian, finding a Madonna and Child in Serravalle (Vittorio Veneto) and two other paintings at a village church in Cadore. [10]

some loftier. In some the descent is gradual; in others it is steep and sudden. Certain leading features are common to all. The great serpent, In April of 1892Edwards succumbtocomplicationsdue toexhaustionand a suppressed immunity due to her battle with breast cancer. Con una gran sensibilidad, un sentido del humor muy victoriano, una mirada crítica, un ojo exhaustivo, un gran talento para el dibujo y una admiración sin límites Amelia nos va a ir describiendo su viaje por el Nilo en cuanto a los monumentos que visita, las ciudades, la tripulación que les acompaña y las gentes y costumbres de cada lugar que visitan.