Letters from Egypt
Subtitle: a journey on the Nile, 1849-1850
By: Florence Nightingale ; selected and introduced by Anthony Sattin.
Contributors: Sattin, Anthony.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1987
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Correspondence; Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910 -- Travel -- Egypt; Nurses -- England -- Correspondence; Women health reformers -- England -- Correspondence; Egypt -- Description and travel
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: Florence Nightingale was twenty-nine when she visited Egypt in the winter of 1849-1850 with her friends Charles and Selma Bracebridge. She wrote long, picturesque letters to her family describing her visit and her views on the country, its history and its people. These letters were edited and privately printed by her sister, Parthenope, in 1854 and were greatly admired by those who read them, but they have never before been published.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 217.
Includes index.