Down the Nile

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316007323
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Book Synopsis Down the Nile by : Rosemary Mahoney

Download or read book Down the Nile written by Rosemary Mahoney and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2007-07-11 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians. Egyptian women don't row on the Nile, and tourists aren't allowed to for safety's sake. Mahoney endures extreme heat during the day, and a terror of crocodiles while alone in her boat at night. Whether she's confronting deeply held beliefs about non-Muslim women, finding connections to past chroniclers of the Nile, or coming to the dramaticm realization that fear can engender unwarranted violence, Rosemary Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world, her glorious prose, and her wit never fail to captivate.

We're Sailing Down the Nile

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Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 1846860407
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (468 download)

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Book Synopsis We're Sailing Down the Nile by : Laurie Krebs

Download or read book We're Sailing Down the Nile written by Laurie Krebs and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the riverboat sails down the Nile River, remnants of Egypt's long history and aspects of its present culture are revealed on its banks. Includes end notes with additional information about ancient Egyptian culture.

Kayaks Down the Nile

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Kayaks Down the Nile by : John Goddard

Download or read book Kayaks Down the Nile written by John Goddard and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nile

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408839938
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nile by : Toby Wilkinson

Download or read book The Nile written by Toby Wilkinson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life – fishing, farming, flooding – continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta. The country is a palimpsest, every age has left its trace: as we pass the Nilometer on the island of Elephantine which since the days of the Pharaohs has measured the height of Nile floodwaters to predict the following season's agricultural yield and set the parameters for the entire Egyptian economy, the wonders of Giza which bear the scars of assault by nineteenth-century archaeologists and the modern-day unbridled urban expansion of Cairo – and in Egypt's earliest art (prehistoric images of fish-traps carved into cliffs) and the Arab Spring (fought on the bridges of Cairo) – the Nile is our guide to understanding the past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing land.

Treasure Hunters

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Publisher : jimmy patterson
ISBN 13 : 0316207551
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis Treasure Hunters by : James Patterson

Download or read book Treasure Hunters written by James Patterson and published by jimmy patterson. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join the famous treasure-hunting Kidds on their first adventure ever! The #1 New York Times bestselling series from James Patterson is jam-packed with action, humor, and heart! The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. But when their parents disappear on the job, the kids are suddenly thrust into the biggest treasure hunt of their lives. They'll have to work together to defeat dangerous pirates and dodge the hot pursuit of an evil treasure hunting rival, all while following cryptic clues to unravel the mystery of what really happened to their parents—and find out if they're still alive.

Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448108489
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (481 download)

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Book Synopsis Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile by : James Patterson

Download or read book Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile written by James Patterson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four kids on a quest to find the legendary Mines of King Solomon... and their parents. Bick, Beck, Storm and Tommy are navigating their way down the Nile, from hot and dusty Cairo to deep dark jungles, past some seriously bad guys along the way. They’ll need all their survival instincts just to make it out alive...

Mystery of the Nile

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Publisher : Signet
ISBN 13 : 9780451217554
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Mystery of the Nile by : Richard Bangs

Download or read book Mystery of the Nile written by Richard Bangs and published by Signet. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling account of the greatest historical expedition of our time, this work highlights the first-ever complete descent of the Nile River in 2004. 16-page color insert.

The Twelve Rooms of the Nile

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451642989
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by : Enid Shomer

Download or read book The Twelve Rooms of the Nile written by Enid Shomer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before she became the nineteenth century’s greatest heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert traveled down the Nile at the same time. In the imaginative leap taken by award-winning writer Enid Shomer’s The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, the two ignite a passionate friendship marked by intelligence, humor, and a ravishing tenderness that will alter both their destinies. In 1850, Florence, daughter of a prominent English family, sets sail on the Nile chaperoned by longtime family friends and her maid, Trout. To her family’s chagrin—and in spite of her wealth, charm, and beauty—she is, at twenty-nine and of her own volition, well on her way to spinsterhood. Meanwhile, Gustave and his good friend Maxime Du Camp embark on an expedition to document the then largely unexplored monuments of ancient Egypt. Traumatized by the deaths of his father and sister, and plagued by mysterious seizures, Flaubert has dropped out of law school and writ-ten his first novel, an effort promptly deemed unpublishable by his closest friends. At twenty-eight, he is an unproven writer with a failing body. Florence is a woman with radical ideas about society and God, naive in the ways of men. Gustave is a notorious womanizer and patron of innumerable prostitutes. But both burn with unfulfilled ambition, and in the deft hands of Shomer, whose writing The New York Times Book Review has praised as “beautifully cadenced, and surprising in its imaginative reach,” the unlikely soul mates come together to share their darkest torments and most fervent hopes. Brimming with adventure and the sparkling sensibilities of the two travelers, this mesmerizing novel offers a luminous combination of gorgeous prose and wild imagination, all of it colored by the opulent tapestry of mid-nineteenth-century Egypt.

Bill and Pete

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Publisher : Puffin Books
ISBN 13 : 0698114000
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Bill and Pete written by and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1996-07-16 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William Everett Crocodile is chosen to be a suitcase, his talking toothbrush becomes his salvation.

Walking the Nile

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Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0802190685
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis Walking the Nile by : Levison Wood

Download or read book Walking the Nile written by Levison Wood and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The explorer and author of Walking the Americas and Walking the Himalayas delivers “a bold travelogue, illuminating great swathes of modern Africa” (Kirkus Reviews). Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda—where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water—writer, photographer, and explorer Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the fabled river. He followed the Nile for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations—Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of Sudan, and Egypt—to the Mediterranean coast. Like his predecessors, Wood camped in the wild, foraged for food, and trudged through rainforest, swamp, savannah, and desert, enduring life-threatening conditions at every turn. He traversed sandstorms, flash floods, minefields, and more, becoming a local celebrity in Uganda, where a popular rap song was written about him, and a potential enemy of the state in South Sudan, where he found himself caught in a civil war and detained by the secret police. As well as recounting his triumphs, like escaping a charging hippo and staving off wild crocodiles, Wood’s gripping account recalls the loss of Matthew Power, a journalist who died suddenly from heat exhaustion during their trek. As Wood walks on, often joined by local guides who help him to navigate foreign languages and customs, Walking the Nile maps out African history and contemporary life. “Woods emerges as a dutiful and brave guide.”—Los Angeles Times “Many have attempted this holy grail of an expedition—so I admire Lev’s determination and courage to pull this off.”—Bear Grylls “A brilliant book.”—Financial Times

Adrift on the Nile

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Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525431616
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Book Synopsis Adrift on the Nile by : Naguib Mahfouz

Download or read book Adrift on the Nile written by Naguib Mahfouz and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1966, Naguib Mahfouz’s Adrift on the Nile is an atmospheric novel that dramatizes the rootlessness of Egypt’s cosmopolitan middle class. Anis Zani is a bored and drug-addicted civil servant who is barely holding on to his job. Every evening he hosts a gathering on a houseboat on the Nile, where he and a motley group of cynical and aimless friends share a water pipe full of kif, a mixture of tobacco and marijuana. When a young female journalist—an “alarmingly serious person”—joins them and begins secretly documenting their activities, the group’s harmony starts disintegrating, culminating in a midnight joyride that ends in tragedy.

Red Nile

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466853905
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Red Nile by : Robert Twigger

Download or read book Red Nile written by Robert Twigger and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From religion, to language, to the stories rooted in our faith and history books, the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind's tales. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Red Nile navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river, exploring this unique breeding ground for creativity, power clashes, and constant change. Seasoned historical writer Robert Twigger connects the comprehensive history of the Nile with his personal experience of living in Egypt while researching the Nile's historical origins. Twigger covers the entirety of the river, charting the length of the Nile from its disputed origins through Africa on a whirlwind tour of the rulers, explorers, conquerors, generals, and novelists who painted the Nile "red." Both comprehensive and intimate, this narrative guides readers through history by way of the mighty river known across the world. The result of this meticulously researched book is an all-inclusive history of this epic river and the incredible connections throughout history. The stories of excess, love, passion, splendor, and violence are what make the Nile so engaging, even after centuries of change.

The Nile

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755616812
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nile by : Terje Tvedt

Download or read book The Nile written by Terje Tvedt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] vivid travelogue.” New Statesman “Has much to offer.” The Spectator "Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine “Essential reading." All About History "Valiant, valuable and entertaining." Times Literary Supplement The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world's leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river's mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5000 years and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. This is the fascinating story of the immense economic, political and mythical significance of the river. Brimming with accounts of central characters in the struggle for the Nile – from Caesar and Cleopatra, to Churchill and Mussolini, and on to the political leaders of today, The Nile is also the story of water as it nourished a civilization.

Mama Panya's Pancakes

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Publisher : Barefoot Books
ISBN 13 : 1782855084
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Book Synopsis Mama Panya's Pancakes by : Mary Chamberlin

Download or read book Mama Panya's Pancakes written by Mary Chamberlin and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On market day, Mama Panya's son Adika invites everyone he sees to a pancake dinner. How will Mama Panya ever feed them all? This clever and heartwarming story about Kenyan village life teaches the importance of sharing, even when you have little to give.

A Winter on the Nile

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446474399
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis A Winter on the Nile by : Anthony Sattin

Download or read book A Winter on the Nile written by Anthony Sattin and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents over her refusal to marry, she had been offered a lifeline by family friends who suggested a trip to Egypt, a country which she had always longed to visit. By an extraordinary coincidence, taking the same boat from Alexandria was an unpublished French writer, Gustave Flaubert. Like Nightingale, he was at the crossroads in his life that was to lead to future acclaim and literary triumph. Egypt for him represented escape and freedom as well as inspiration. But as a wealthy young man travelling with male friends, he had access to an altogether different Egpyt: where Nightingale sought out temples and dispensaries, Flaubert visited brothels and harems. In this beguiling book, Anthony Sattin takes a key moment in the lives of two extraordinary figures on the brink of international fame, and provides a fascinating insight into the early days of travel to one of the greatest tourist destinations on the planet.

The Nile River

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ISBN 13 : 9781612282947
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (829 download)

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Book Synopsis The Nile River by : Tammy Gagne

Download or read book The Nile River written by Tammy Gagne and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the ecology, history and importance of the Nile river.

The Black Nile

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143119370
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Book Synopsis The Black Nile by : Dan Morrison

Download or read book The Black Nile written by Dan Morrison and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A supremely entertaining work, and also an important one." -David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z Upon hearing the news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a friend who'd never left America, and set out from Uganda, paddling the Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny and war had made impossible for decades. With the propulsive force of a thriller, Morrison's chronicle is a mash-up of travel narrative and reportage, packed with flights into the frightful and absurd. From the hardscrabble fishing villages on Lake Victoria to the floating nightclubs of Cairo, The Black Nile tracks the snarl of commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile valley, bringing to life a complex region in profound transition.