On the Nile in the golden age of travel
By: Andrew Humphreys
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cairo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: Description and travel; Steamboats; Thomas Cook (Firm)
Description: Egypt; travelers writings, Arabic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index.
Table of contents: title: Miss Riggs goes abroad : Thomas Cook's first guided tour to Egypt and up the Nile; title: Four months in a Dahabiya : early visitors under sail on the Nile; title: A monopoly on the Nile : Thomas Cook and son become masters of the river; title: Cook goes to war : Cook & Son's role in the British-Egyptian campaigns in Sudan; title: Floating palaces : Cook & Son's new fleet of first-class Nile river steamers; title: Life aboard : the attractions and diversions of cruising the Nile under steam; title: Egypt, Arabia, and Sudan : competition on the Nile and three new Cook & Son steamers; title: Death on the Nile : a dead pharaoh, multiple murders, and the threat of the railways; title: The end of the Cook & Son era and the emergence of the modern Nile cruise business; title: The Nile fleets : An A-Z of steamers used on the Nile passenger services from the 1880s until the Second World War.