Thousand Miles up the Nile
Author: first_name: Amelia Ann Blanford
last_name: Edwards
Language: English
Year: 1877

Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn't leave home. One of the pioneering Egyptologists of the age, she established the Edwards Chair of Egyptology, occupied first by the great Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie.<br /><br />
This book is in a sense a seminal work, known to have influenced the moder