Down the Nile
Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
(Sprache: Englisch)
An exciting and amusing adventure that offers a fresh view of Egypt in the past and the present - by a prize-winning author
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An exciting and amusing adventure that offers a fresh view of Egypt in the past and the present - by a prize-winning author
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When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a female, she confronted deeply-held beliefs about foreign women while cautiously remaining open to genuine friendship; and, as a traveller, she experienced events that ranged from the humorous to the hair-raising - including an encounter that began as one of the most frightening of her life and ended as an edifying and chastening lesson in human nature and cultural misunderstanding.
Whether she's meeting Nubians and Egyptians, or finding connections to Westerners who travelled up the Nile in earlier times - Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert among them - Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world never ceases to captivate the reader.
Autoren-Porträt von Rosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoney is the author of The Early Arrival of Dreams, a New York Times Notable Book in 1990; Whoredom in Kimmage, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1994; A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman; and The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground. She has received a Whiting Writer's Award
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rosemary Mahoney
- 2008, 273 Seiten, Maße: 21,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Back Bay Books
- ISBN-10: 0316019011
- ISBN-13: 9780316019019
Sprache:
Englisch
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