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A Ride in Egypt from Sioot to Luxor in 1879 - With Notes on the Present State and Ancient History of the Nile Valley, and Some Account of the Various Ways of Making the Voyage out and Home (Paperback)
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A Ride in Egypt from Sioot to Luxor in 1879 - With Notes on the Present State and Ancient History of the Nile Valley, and Some Account of the Various Ways of Making the Voyage out and Home (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, accounts of the
journey down the Nile became increasingly common. This narrative by
William John Loftie (1839-1911), who wrote prolifically on travel,
art, architecture and history, was published in 1879. (His A
Century of Bibles is also reissued in the Cambridge Library
Collection.) Loftie spent in total about 15 months in the Nile
valley over several seasons, and justifies his book by the rate of
archaeological discoveries: 'books published even three years ago
are already behind the times'. He gives details of his journeys to
and from Egypt, and of visits to the famous sites, but, unusually,
he takes notice of the current political and economic state of
Egypt, and is trenchant in some of his criticisms. He also goes off
the beaten tourist track, hiring donkeys to make excursions away
from the river, rather than travelling only by boat.
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