The Bride Of The Nile Volume 01

Author : Georg Ebers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483890909
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Bride of the Nile, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Georg Ebers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Bride of the Nile, Vol. 1 of 2: A Romance Half a lustrum had elapsed since Egypt had be: come subject to the youthful power of the Arabs, which had risen with such unexampled vigor and rapidity. It had fallen an easy prey, cheaply bought, into the hands of a small, well-captained tr00p of Moslem war riors; and the fair province, which so lately had been a jewel of the Byzantine Empire and the most faithful foster-mother to Christianity, now owned the sway of the Khalif Omar and saw the Crescent raised by the side of the Cross. It was long since a hotter season had afflicted the land; and the Nile, whose rising had been watched for on the Night of Dropping - the 17th of June with the usual festive preparations, had cheated the hopes of the Egyptians, and instead of rising had shrunk narrower and still narrower in its bed. It was in this time of sore anxiety, on the roth of July, A. D. 643, that a caravan from the North reached Memphis. 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.