On The Nile With A Camera With 111 Illustrations

Author : Anthony Wilkin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330135235
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book On the Nile With a Camera written by Anthony Wilkin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Nile With a Camera Briefly, then, it was this last consideration, coupled with the scarcity of photographs in popular works on Egypt, both of antiquities and modern life, which led me to believe that a slight account of a Nile trip, copiously illustrated, might not at the present juncture prove unacceptable to those who know the country, and to the less-favoured majority to whom Egypt is familiar only from works of a more or less scientific character. It is only fair for me to add that the idea of combining a large number of pictures with a modest but sufficient letterpress was inspired by that excellent little book by the Earl of Cavan, "With the Yacht, Camera, and Cycle in the Mediterranean." The orthography of ancient names and places is a vexed question, so I have adopted the forms most familiar to English eyes; and, though the spelling in most popular works is in such a chaotic condition as to allow considerable license in this direction, I have throughout endeavoured to be as consistent as possible. With regard to Arab words I have given up the ordinary English renderings in despair, and adopted the accurate and uniform method familiar to most travellers from Baedeker's Guide-books to Egypt, save only in cases where an alteration of the usual spelling would appear pedantic. I may at once, therefore, tender my best thanks for much useful information to the author of these invaluable companions; though in questions of archæology pure and simple I have, of course, followed implicitly such authorities as Wilkinson, Mariette, and Maspero. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.