Letters From Eqypt (Virago travellers)

By Lucie Duff-Gordon, Janet Ann Duff-Gordon Ross, Lady Duff Gordon

Book Overview

In 1862, Duff Gordon embarked on a solo trip to Egypt in a bid to rid herself of consumption. She spent the next seven years in a ruined house above a temple in Luxor, on the Nile, mixing with the local people and setting up a hospital from her home. This volume tells her story through her letters.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0860684555
• ISBN13: 9780860684558
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Virago Pr
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 1.0" x 5.0"