Egypt
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/02/from_suez_to_ca.html
The most recent offering is an excerpt from "Orient Line Guide - Chapters for travellers by sea and by land" entitled "From Suez to Cairo" (London, 1890). It is a narrative description, mainly of Cairo, in which the author tries to convey not merely the look of areas and features, but the impact they have on visitors. The text is accompanied by some fine drawings of the Meidum pyramid and the "Boolak Museum" (the Cairo Egyptology collection in one of its former homes).
- More Re Cairo Protests
If anyone is daft enough to be sight-seeing in Cairo at the moment, the latest and most unsurprising news from the BBC is that access to the pyramids at Giza has been closed by the military. Travel news for British travellers, also from the BBC is that...
- Review - The Temple Of Edfu
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for her review, following, of The Temple of Edfu: The Temple of Edfu A Guide by an Ancient Egyptian Priest by Dieter Kurth. Kat read the book whilst recovering in hospital from an accident, so here's wishing her a huge...
- Meeting Henry Salt - Narrative Of A Journey Overland
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/10/franks_at_alexandria.htmlThe Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with this piece written in 1830 by Mrs Colonel Elwood from Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe,...
- Prisse D'avennes
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/prisse.html The Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with a verbal portrait of Prisse D'Avennes, who travelled Egypt in the late 1800s: "Of the hundreds of 19th-century Orientalists – those...
- Travellers In Egypt
Lotus and Pyramid: Constance - Constance Sitwell, 1928 http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/04/white_bird_in_h.html "I am sitting on the window-sill in my room eating sugar-cane. It is so juicy and fresh one could go on nibbling at it all day....
Egypt
More from "Travellers in Egypt"
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/02/from_suez_to_ca.html
The most recent offering is an excerpt from "Orient Line Guide - Chapters for travellers by sea and by land" entitled "From Suez to Cairo" (London, 1890). It is a narrative description, mainly of Cairo, in which the author tries to convey not merely the look of areas and features, but the impact they have on visitors. The text is accompanied by some fine drawings of the Meidum pyramid and the "Boolak Museum" (the Cairo Egyptology collection in one of its former homes).
- More Re Cairo Protests
If anyone is daft enough to be sight-seeing in Cairo at the moment, the latest and most unsurprising news from the BBC is that access to the pyramids at Giza has been closed by the military. Travel news for British travellers, also from the BBC is that...
- Review - The Temple Of Edfu
Thanks very much to Kat Newkirk for her review, following, of The Temple of Edfu: The Temple of Edfu A Guide by an Ancient Egyptian Priest by Dieter Kurth. Kat read the book whilst recovering in hospital from an accident, so here's wishing her a huge...
- Meeting Henry Salt - Narrative Of A Journey Overland
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/10/franks_at_alexandria.htmlThe Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with this piece written in 1830 by Mrs Colonel Elwood from Narrative of a Journey Overland from England, by the Continent of Europe,...
- Prisse D'avennes
http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/07/prisse.html The Travellers in Egypt website has been updated with a verbal portrait of Prisse D'Avennes, who travelled Egypt in the late 1800s: "Of the hundreds of 19th-century Orientalists – those...
- Travellers In Egypt
Lotus and Pyramid: Constance - Constance Sitwell, 1928 http://www.travellersinegypt.org/archives/2005/04/white_bird_in_h.html "I am sitting on the window-sill in my room eating sugar-cane. It is so juicy and fresh one could go on nibbling at it all day....