From the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland
Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on
the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the
Riviera, the hotels of Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan were
always about far more than just bed and board. As bridgeheads for
African exploration, neutral territories for conducting diplomacy,
headquarters for armies, providers of home comforts for writers,
painters, scholars, and archaeologists in the field, and social
hubs for an international elite, more of importance happened in
Egypt's hotels than in any other setting. It was through the hotels
that visitors from the west-the earliest adventurers, then the
travelers and, finally, the tourists-experienced the Orient. This
book tells the stories of Egypt's historic hotels (including the
Cecil, Shepheard's, the Mena House, Gezira Palace, Semiramis,
Winter Palace, and Cataract) and some of the people who stayed in
them, from Amelia Edwards, Lucie Duff Gordon and Florence
Nightingale to Agatha Christie, Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, and
TE Lawrence.
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