Lucie Duff Gordon
Subtitle: A Passage to Egypt (Tauris Parke Paperback)
Publisher: Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Published: April 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9781845113315
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; Biography: general; c 1800 to c 1900; Biography And Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; History - General History; Biography/Autobiography; Egypt; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / Great Britain; Historical - General; Women
First sentence: In the Muqattam Hills south-east of Cairo, just beyond the strip of emerald lushness which borders the Nile, lies the City of the Dead: graveyard after graveyard - sandy expanses the size of playing fields - filled with the jerry-built shelters of the hom