Flaubert in Egypt
Subtitle: A Sensibility on Tour
Contributors: Francis Steegmuller (Editor)
Publisher: Academy Chicago Pub
Published: August 1987
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780897330183
Subjects: Travel; Travel - Foreign; General; Middle East - Egypt
First sentence: THE Gustave Flaubert who left France in the autumn of 1849 for a long tour of the 'Orient' (a term then often used to denote what we now call the Near and Middle East, and even North Africa) was a young man approaching twenty-eight, unknown outside his own circle, but who impressed friends and strangers alike by his size, his beauty, and his air of athletic vigor.