Aristocrats and Archaeologists: An Edwardian Journey on the Nile

by Toby Wilkinson and Julian Platt

An unusually vivid first-hand account of early twentieth-century travel in Egypt

A collection of letters in a small painted box passed down through three generations of a London family is the starting point for a vivid account of a three-month journey up and down the Nile in a bygone age. The letters, like a time capsule, bring to life a lost world of Edwardian travel and social mores, of Egypt on the brink of the modern age, of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9774168453
• ISBN13: 9789774168451
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.8"