Download or read book The Attractions of the Nile and Its Banks Vol 1 of 2 Classic Reprint written by Alfred Charles Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Attractions of the Nile and Its Banks, Vol. 1 of 2 With regard to the Antiquities of Egypt, I know that the less I say the better, because they have been so fully and so admirably handled by Sir Gardner Wilkinson, both in his large book on Egyptian Antiquities, and also in Murray's Hand book for Egypt, ' of which he is the learned author, as well as by many other explorers, English, French, German, and Italian. Bearing this in mind, I hope I shall not be considered too prolix on this absorbing theme, but at the same time, as it is scarcely possible for one who has dabbled in antiquarian pursuits from his youth, and is now Secretary to an Archaological Society, to pass by the pyramids and temples of Egypt without a word, I hope I may be excused if I do prose a little on this most engaging subject, and record my introduction to the monarchs of antiquarian remains, compared to which all hitherto explored ruins become dwarfed into pigmy relics, and even our British earthworks and famous stone temples of Wiltshire seem of modern date. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Nile and Its Banks Vol 2 of 2 written by Alfred Charles Smith and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nile and Its Banks, Vol. 2 of 2: A Journal of Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Showing Their Attractions to the Archeologist, the Naturalist, and General Tourist In the afternoon a crowd of Nubians, including the three Cataract sheikhs came on board, and im mediately we cast ofi' our moorings, and sailed with a gentle breeze through the granite rocks, which are here much scored 'with hieroglyphics. The Nubians quite filled our boat, squatting on the main deck and quarter-deck in all positions, and as they. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Banks of the Nile Classic Reprint written by John A. Todd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Banks of the Nile The text of such a book as this ought to serve several useful purposes. Its chief Object, apart from the artistic pleasure given by the pictures, is to help the traveller to understand what he sees while he is in the country, and afterwards to recall the pleasures and interests of his travels. At the same time there are many who can never hope to see the country, and for them a more exacting standard of information is desirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book The Nile written by Toby Wilkinson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life – fishing, farming, flooding – continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta. The country is a palimpsest, every age has left its trace: as we pass the Nilometer on the island of Elephantine which since the days of the Pharaohs has measured the height of Nile floodwaters to predict the following season's agricultural yield and set the parameters for the entire Egyptian economy, the wonders of Giza which bear the scars of assault by nineteenth-century archaeologists and the modern-day unbridled urban expansion of Cairo – and in Egypt's earliest art (prehistoric images of fish-traps carved into cliffs) and the Arab Spring (fought on the bridges of Cairo) – the Nile is our guide to understanding the past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing land.
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