Amelia B. Edwards

A thousand miles up the Nile (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

It is the traveler's lot to dine at many table-d'hôtes in the course of many wanderings; but it seldom befalls him to make one of a more miscellaneous gathering than that which overfills the great dining-room at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo during the beginning and height of the regular Egyptian season. Here assemble daily some two to three hundred persons of all ranks, nationalities, and pursuits; half of whom are Anglo-Indians homeward or outward bound, European residents, or visitors established in Cairo for the winter. The other half, it may be taken for granted, are going up the Nile. So composite and incongruous is this body of Nile-goers, young and old, well-dressed and ill-dressed, learned and unlearned, that the new-comer's first impulse is to inquire from what motives so many persons of dissimilar tastes and training can be led to embark upon an expedition which is, to say the least of it, very tedious, very costly, and of an altogether exceptional interest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Librorium Editions
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9782385740269
• Artikelnr.: 67862172

Autorenporträt

Amelia B Edwards (1831-1892) is an enigmatic character of the Victorian period. She was highly skilled as a novelist, musician, and artist but her life took an unexpected turn when she visited Egypt in 1873. For the remainder of her life she campaigned for the exploration of Egyptian sites and monuments and for them to be recorded for future generations. Her journey in Egypt was published as a travelogue, A Thousand Miles up the Nile, and generated interest in Egyptian heritage among the British public. From these beginnings, Amelia founded the Egypt Exploration Society and, on her death, endowed the first professorship for Egyptology in England. Today, her legacy is controversial. While she is respected as a pioneer of British Egyptology, she is also criticised for her support in distributing Egyptian artefacts out of Egypt, and for the orientalising and racist language used in her narratives.