If, however, you would enjoy the perspective of travelers along the Nile over 160 years ago and love Egyptian history, this book is an amazing trip. Serpents, and bats, and crocodiles, some with human heads and legs, some vomiting fire, some armed with spears and darts, pursue and torture the wicked. A more unprepossessing population I would never wish to see - the men half stealth, half insolent; the women bold and fierce; the children filthy, sickly, stunted, and stolid.

A whole family would come, bringing the first fruits of their garden, the best of their poultry, cakes of home-made bread, bouquets of lotus blossoms. Striking off by and by towards the left, we make for a point where the mountains recede and run low, and a wedge-like "spit" of sandy desert encroaches upon the plain. After this, the officiating priest washed his hands in a brass basin; and the deacon — who was also the schoolmaster — came round the church holding up his scarf, which was heaped full of little cakes of unleavened bread. were found lying in the dust, their gold and silver ornaments, and the treasures of their tombs, all stolen. With his right hand he seizes the multitudes; his left reaches like an arrow after those who fly before him.We came back to find the old mooring-place alive with dahabeeyahs, and gay with English and American colours.

Three of these (unlike any engraved in the works of Wilkinson or Rosellini) are here reproduced from his sketch made upon the spot. Su travesía por el río Nilo a bordo de la dahabiya Philae y las ciudades, lugares y centros de interés de carácter egiptológico por los que pasa. We had so long been the sport of destiny, that we hardly knew what to make of our good fortune when two days of sweet south wind carried us from Edfu to Luxor.El libro, además, está ilustrado con dibujos de la autora, que dedicaba las distintas visitas a plasmar las maravillas que veía.

Desde las famosas pirámides de Giza y Saqqara, Abu Simbel o Kom Ombo hasta el conocido Templo de Debod en Madrid o el Templo de Dendur en Nueva York, que la autora conoció en sus emplazamientos originales en Egipto. The walls on both sides are covered with close-cut columns of hieroglyphic text, interspersed with ominous shapes, half-deity, half-demon.A leitura é difícil, pelo texto ser de 1877, mas a atenção aos detalhes faz com que o leitor se sinta no Egito na época em que o livro foi escrito. She was a privileged woman of the Victorian era, but she was not without an understanding of and compassion for Egypt and the Egyptian people. Long ago I looked down at the Nile and promised myself I would journey by boat down that river with its different peoples, temples thousands of years old, and many adventures. Of thirty-nine persons accused by name in the papyrus just quoted, seven are priests, and eight are sacred scribes.

Of all those admirable and doughty Victorian Lady travellers Miss Amelia Edwards is surely one of the brightest lights, and this, her classic introduction to ancient Egypt, still stands up like an obelisk above the bulk of learned tomes and endlessly churned out travel guides. There was present, however, one native performer whom we had already heard many times, and of whose skill we never tired. Edward's work provides a picture of pre-industrial Egypt, narrating her travels around Egypt in the early 1870's, when tourists were still a rare sight in the country and much of the ancient monuments had still retained their natural beauty.

the temple descriptions so good you feel as if you are stood there and the background history all very enlightening.