description: Amelia Edwards was born in London in 1831, the daughter of an army officer. This book describes a 1000 mile journey up the Nile she undertook in 1873. Although the trip was initially undertaken to escape the rain in Europe, Edwards was no vacuous tourist; her lively account of Ancient Egypt's great antiquities made this book a bestseller of its day.
language: English
title: A thousand miles up the Nile
titlecomplete: A thousand miles up the Nile (Traveller's)
genres: Adventure, Classics, Egyptology, History, Travel, Research, Egypt, Biography, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 272
publisher: Pimlico