Down The Nile
Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
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2008
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-01901-9 (ISBN)
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-01901-9 (ISBN)
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An exciting and amusing adventure that offers a fresh view of Egypt in the past and the present - by a prize-winning author
When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a female, she confronted deeply-held beliefs about foreign women while cautiously remaining open to genuine friendship; and, as a traveller, she experienced events that ranged from the humorous to the hair-raising - including an encounter that began as one of the most frightening of her life and ended as an edifying and chastening lesson in human nature and cultural misunderstanding.
Whether she's meeting Nubians and Egyptians, or finding connections to Westerners who travelled up the Nile in earlier times - Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert among them - Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world never ceases to captivate the reader.
When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a female, she confronted deeply-held beliefs about foreign women while cautiously remaining open to genuine friendship; and, as a traveller, she experienced events that ranged from the humorous to the hair-raising - including an encounter that began as one of the most frightening of her life and ended as an edifying and chastening lesson in human nature and cultural misunderstanding.
Whether she's meeting Nubians and Egyptians, or finding connections to Westerners who travelled up the Nile in earlier times - Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert among them - Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world never ceases to captivate the reader.
Rosemary Mahoney is the author of The Early Arrival of Dreams, a New York Times Notable Book in 1990; Whoredom in Kimmage, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1994; A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman; and The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground. She has received a Whiting Writer's Award
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.10.2008 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika |
| ISBN-10 | 0-316-01901-1 / 0316019011 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-316-01901-9 / 9780316019019 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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