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On the Nile: In the Golden Age of Travel

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2015Description: 184 p., ill. (some color); 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789774166938
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Contents:
Miss Riggs goes abroad : Thomas Cook's first guided tour to Egypt and up the Nile -- Four months in a Dahabiya : early visitors under sail on the Nile -- A monopoly on the Nile : Thomas Cook and son become masters of the river -- Cook goes to war : Cook & Son's role in the British-Egyptian campaigns in Sudan -- Floating palaces : Cook & Son's new fleet of first-class Nile river steamers -- Life aboard : the attractions and diversions of cruising the Nile under steam -- Egypt, Arabia, and Sudan : competition on the Nile and three new Cook & Son steamers -- Death on the Nile : a dead pharaoh, multiple murders, and the threat of the railways -- The end of the Cook & Son era and the emergence of the modern Nile cruise business -- The Nile fleets : An A-Z of steamers used on the Nile passenger services from the 1880s until the Second World War.
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Books Books Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC) Library Main Library - 0.01 G 885 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available G 885

Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index.

Miss Riggs goes abroad : Thomas Cook's first guided tour to Egypt and up the Nile -- Four months in a Dahabiya : early visitors under sail on the Nile -- A monopoly on the Nile : Thomas Cook and son become masters of the river -- Cook goes to war : Cook & Son's role in the British-Egyptian campaigns in Sudan -- Floating palaces : Cook & Son's new fleet of first-class Nile river steamers -- Life aboard : the attractions and diversions of cruising the Nile under steam -- Egypt, Arabia, and Sudan : competition on the Nile and three new Cook & Son steamers -- Death on the Nile : a dead pharaoh, multiple murders, and the threat of the railways -- The end of the Cook & Son era and the emergence of the modern Nile cruise business -- The Nile fleets : An A-Z of steamers used on the Nile passenger services from the 1880s until the Second World War.

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