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Notes For The Nile - Together with a Metrical Rendering of the Hymns of Ancient Egypt and of the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep (Paperback)
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Notes For The Nile - Together with a Metrical Rendering of the Hymns of Ancient Egypt and of the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep (Paperback)
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First published in 2006. This delightful book written in 1892 by a
founder of the National Trust is regarded as a classic of high
Victorian travel writing. After three journeys to the East,
Rawnsley decided that existing guide-books were not sufficiently
explicit and set out to write this witty and informative account
that reflects a highly likeable character to whom it is impossible
not to warm. Beginning with observations such as 'everything can be
got in Cairo except good English tea' and 'never expect your guide
to know anything about Egyptian history or the monuments up the
Nile', Rawnsley sets off to show us the best of Egypt during a
golden age of exploration and touring, he visits the two
egyptologists to whom he dedicates this book, joining Flinders
Petrie at the Medum pyramid to observe the excavations, and talking
to Emile Brugsch about the royal mummies which had been brought
from their tombs to the Cairo Museum just a few years previously.
In the ruins of Thebes and Luxor he is struck by what he calls 'the
silence of the dead' which he contrasts with the obvious love of
the ancient Egyptians for music, as shown in their art and in the
many hymns preserved in papyri. Although the music itself has been
lost, it seemed a pity to Rawnsley that the hymns, dirges, poems
and wise sayings should remain unknown to the general reader
because of their unmusical form. He presents a number of them here,
translated and rendered into metre, a unique contribution that
greatly enhances the enjoyment of Egypt at first hand or at a
distance. The work concludes with what Rawnsley considers to be its
most important part - the timeless wisdom embodied in the sayings
of Ptah-hotep taken from the Prisse papyrus.
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