num_pages: 320
description: A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and how it sustained its successors now in tumult.Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads us through space as much as from the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes with its Valley of the Kings Valley of the Queens and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza home of the Great Pyramid the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally to the pulsating capital city of Cairo where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters-the gods godlike pharaohs emperors and empresses who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers archaeologists and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill through a lens equal to both panoramas and close-ups Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view.
language: English
title: The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present
publisher: Knopf