In the 1870s the English novelist hired a dahabeeyah at Cairo and sailed south past Sakkarah, Memphis, Thebes and Karnak to Assuan and beyond. Her account mixes the comedy of donkeys, boatmen and fellow travellers with serious study of the monuments and the pharaohs who built them, Rameses II above all.
The voyage that turned Edwards into a lifelong champion of Egyptology, and still one of the best companions for a Nile journey. Download the free EPUB.