On the Nile in the golden age of travel
Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index
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Cairo
The American University in Cairo Press
2015
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index Miss Riggs goes abroad : Thomas Cook's first guided tour to Egypt and up the Nile -- Four months in a Dahabiya : early visitors under sail on the Nile -- A monopoly on the Nile : Thomas Cook and son become masters of the river -- Cook goes to war : Cook & Son's role in the British-Egyptian campaigns in Sudan -- Floating palaces : Cook & Son's new fleet of first-class Nile river steamers -- Life aboard : the attractions and diversions of cruising the Nile under steam -- Egypt, Arabia, and Sudan : competition on the Nile and three new Cook & Son steamers -- Death on the Nile : a dead pharaoh, multiple murders, and the threat of the railways -- The end of the Cook & Son era and the emergence of the modern Nile cruise business -- The Nile fleets : An A-Z of steamers used on the Nile passenger services from the 1880s until the Second World War |
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| Beschreibung: | 184 pages illustrations (some color) 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9789774166938 9774166930 |