A thousand miles up the Nile

by Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

1878 eng

In 1873, English novelist Amelia Edwards left the cosmopolitan comfort of Cairo's Shepherd's Hotel to venture up the Nile in a hired <i>dehabeeyah</i> - a boat replete with a crew of twenty men, drawing rooms, servants, a piano and high tea. Accompanied by such intriguing characters as the "Painter"…