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Letters from Egypt, 1863-65 (Paperback)
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Letters from Egypt, 1863-65 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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Lucie Duff Gordon (1821 1869) was a translator and travel writer.
Forced to leave England in 1851 due to tuberculosis, she went first
to South Africa and then to Egypt. Her letters home were published,
with considerable success. She writes with great feeling about the
ordinary life of the Egyptians: her interest in and sympathy with
them is clear, and her great affection for them led to criticism of
the derogatory way in which many western visitors regarded them.
But she was also highly critical of the effects of western
influence on them, and her comments about the Suez Canal project
and new railroads being achieved by forced labour and high taxes
were not well received: some of her political opinions were removed
from subsequent editions. This volume, first published in 1865, was
edited by her mother, also a writer, and covers the years 1862
1865, including her voyage out.
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