No land on earth has been so long observed as Egypt, which was
attracting awestruck travelers back in the days of Herodotus and
Julius Caesar. Then came pilgrims to Sinai, crusaders and Napoleon,
followed by the grand tourists of the eighteenth century, and those
less grand with Thomas Cook in the nineteenth. The range of voices
gathered here is dazzling: an ancient myth from a papyrus next to
Naguib Mahfouz's account of Alexandria, Florence Nightingale
describing Abu Simbel side by side with Ahdaf Soueif's description
of Sinai. A description of medieval Cairo by Ibn Jubayr walks hand
in hand with one of the modern city by the Egyptian thinker, Taha
Hussein. Lucie Duff-Gordon sails up the Nile, Edward Lane crawls
through a sand-filled temple and Isambard Kingdom Brunel struggles
up the cataract above Aswan.
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