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The Nile - Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present (Paperback)
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The Nile - Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 630
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From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady
flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its
geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The
same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships,
Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers
today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in
which rural life - fishing, farming, flooding - continues much as
it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the
country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on
a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to
Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta. The country is a
palimpsest, every age has left its trace: as we pass the Nilometer
on the island of Elephantine which since the days of the Pharaohs
has measured the height of Nile floodwaters to predict the
following season's agricultural yield and set the parameters for
the entire Egyptian economy, the wonders of Giza which bear the
scars of assault by nineteenth-century archaeologists and the
modern-day unbridled urban expansion of Cairo - and in Egypt's
earliest art (prehistoric images of fish-traps carved into cliffs)
and the Arab Spring (fought on the bridges of Cairo) - the Nile is
our guide to understanding the past and present of this unique,
chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing land.
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