Bayard Taylor sailed up the Nile from Cairo past the pyramids and temples, then crossed the Nubian desert by camel to Khartoum and pushed on up the White Nile into country few Westerners had seen. He describes boatmen, caravans, Turkish officials, villages and the people he met along the way.
Vivid travel writing from one of the most famous American travellers of the 1850s. Download the free EPUB.