Traveling Through Egypt
Subtitle: From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth-Century
Contributors: Deborah Manley (Editor); Sahar Abdel-Hakim (Editor)
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: May 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9789774248016
Subjects: Travel writing; Travelers; History: World; Egypt; Travel - General; Middle East - Egypt; Essays & Travelogues; Travel / Middle East / Egypt; Description and travel; Ancient - Egypt; History
First sentence: Egypt, as Herodotus tells us, is the gift of the Nile, and the Nile once dominated the country even more than it does today, as these first writers show.