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Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology

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Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology - Manley, Deborah (Editor)
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Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go. From Eliza Fay's description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney's daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in ...

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Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology 2016, The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo

ISBN-13: 9789774167874

Hardcover