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A THOUSAND MILES up the NILE By AMELIA B. EDWARDS ILLUSTRATED BY THE SAME AUTHOR, Un voyage en Egypte, c'est une partie d'nes et une promenade en bateau entremulEes de ruines. AMPRE. AMPwRE has put Egypt in an epigram. A donkey-ride and a boating-trip interspersed with ruins does, in fact, sum up in a single line the whole experience of the Nile traveller. propos of these three things ? the donkeys, the boat, and the ruins it may be said that a good English saddle and a comfortable dahabeeyah add very considerably to the pleasure of the journey; and that the more one knows about the past history of the country, the more one enjoys the ruins. Of the comparative merits of wooden boats, iron boats, and steamers, I am not qualified to speak. We, however, saw one iron dahabeeyah aground upon a sandbank, where, as we afterwards learned, it remained for three weeks. We also saw the |
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Reviewer: Diana Hamilton - 1/16/2008 20:29Subject: The real Amelia Peabody An excellent book in either audio or print! If you've enjoyed Elizabeth Peters' mystery series, visit an inspiration here. |
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