Down The Nile - Rosemary Mahoney

Down The Nile

Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2007
Little, Brown & Company (Verlag)
978-0-316-10745-7 (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.

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 1.11.2007
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 217 mm
Gewicht 416 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
Reisen Reiseberichte Afrika
ISBN-10 0-316-10745-X / 031610745X
ISBN-13 978-0-316-10745-7 / 9780316107457
Zustand Neuware
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