The clergyman F. Barham Zincke travelled up the Nile in the early 1870s and used the journey to think about Egypt across its whole history. He considers how the river shaped the people, who the ancient Egyptians were, and what their temples and customs meant, set beside the Egypt of the Khedive he actually saw, quoting Herodotus along the way.
A thoughtful, wide-ranging Victorian travel book for readers drawn to the Nile and its long past. Download the free EPUB.