The Twelve Rooms of the Nile

by Enid Shomer

Book Overview

This "mesmerizing new work of historical fiction" (The Miami Herald) imagines the deep friendship of Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert as they travel up the Nile.Before she became the nineteenth century's greatest heroine, before he had written a word of Madame Bovary, Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert traveled down the Nile at the same time in 1850. But where history would have these two figures float right by each other, the award-winning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451642970
• ISBN13: 9781451642971
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.6" x 8.4"