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A Winter on the Nile (Paperback)
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A Winter on the Nile (Paperback)
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List price R479
Loot Price R432
Discovery Miles 4 320
You Save R47 (10%)
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In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown
29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After
clashing with her parents over her refusal to marry, she had been
offered a lifeline by family friends who suggested a trip to Egypt,
a country which she had always longed to visit. By an extraordinary
coincidence, taking the same boat from Alexandria was an
unpublished French writer, Gustave Flaubert. Like Nightingale, he
was at the crossroads in his life that was to lead to future
acclaim and literary triumph. Egypt for him represented escape and
freedom as well as inspiration. But as a wealthy young man
travelling with male friends, he had access to an altogether
different Egpyt: where Nightingale sought out temples and
dispensaries, Flaubert visited brothels and harems. In this
beguiling book, Anthony Sattin takes a key moment in the lives of
two extraordinary figures on the brink of international fame, and
provides a fascinating insight into the early days of travel to one
of the greatest tourist destinations on the planet.
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