A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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Una lectura extensa cargada de descripciones exhaustivas, que puede llegar a resultar pesado, e ilustraciones hechas por la propia autora. She reportedly kept it up very nicely with all the luxuries a proper Victorian lady could afford (Adams 2010:23). If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. In 1882, Edwards, along with financial backers, helped found the Egypt Exploration Fund to carry out proper excavations in Egypt. This year, to mark the 140th anniversary of the Egypt Exploration Society, we're pleased to launch a special reprint of Amelia's A Thousand Miles up the Nile.

Eventually,“This is what we see…a Temple neither ruined nor defaced, but buried to the chin in the accumulated rubbish of a score of centuries. They sailed on to Aswan, where one of the highlights was going to the quarries to see the 'Unfinished Obelisk'. I read this book because of its reference in "Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson. Through her writings and lectures, she became one of the leading voices of the era to champion the protection and preservation of Egypt’s cultural heritage.Birch has suggested that the whole of this scene may be of a memorial character, and represent an incident in the Land of Shades. I do not have words to address this ignorance of these observers are wealthy enough to hire a boat to travel the Nile for months ), in Asyoot "its inhabitants, who, instead of being sullen, thievish, and unfriendly, are too familiar to be pleasant, and the most unappeasable beggars out of Ireland. Although, the author shows great care for Egypt, its history and the Nile, the prejudices about other people come through at times, through the Eurocentric view of the world. Edwards further maintained important, close friendships with painter Marianne North (1830–1890), her travelling companion Lucy Renshaw (1833–1919) and her closest confidante during her later years, Kate Bradbury (later Griffith), who also became executrix of Edwards' will. The crew cleaned one of the colossal statues that was“still disfigured by the plaster left on it when the great cast was taken by Mr Hay more than half a century before.

Presenting an Exquisite Leather-Bound Edition, expertly crafted by the prestigious organization "Rare Biblio" with Original Natural Leather that gracefully adorns the spine and corners.The voyage up the Nile changed Amelia Edwards’ life and led to the publication of A Thousand Miles Up The Nile which was published in 1877. A fascinating account of a trip up the Nile 140 year ago by the author, a group of friends and an Egyptian crew. An extremely dense, Dickensian thick descriptive book about the author and others travelling on the Nile.

Some of them didpaperwork, somebecamescholars and lecturers, some risked their lives in thepursuitof their fields. Despite the bad taste left in my mouth throughout various passages, I feel that the importance of the work comes from the many beautiful and exacting descriptions of the sites and the many illustrations. I must constantly keep in mind that this is literally the Victorian era and Britain is the world's largest colonial power.Sadly she draws our attention to the looting, damage, and graffiti - personal names - written upon structures by tourists. I am grateful to my local library for getting me a copy from a local university, which was willing to lend me this somewhat fragile book. She also created the Egypt Exploration Fund in 1882withReginald Stuart Poole and Sir Erasmus Wilson (Adams 2010:36, Wiki). She and her crew began recording the vividly painting on the walls, and they even found a human skull. Wheresoever we meet with him, whether in the fallen colossus at Memphis, or in the syenite torso of the British Museum, or among the innumerable bas-reliefs of Thebes, Abydos, Gournah, and Bayt-el-Welly, his features (though bearing in some instances the impress of youth and in others of maturity) are always the same.

During the expedition, Edwards also sought works of Titian, finding a Madonna and Child in Serravalle (Vittorio Veneto) and two other paintings at a village church in Cadore. Each runner is expected to do his 4 miles in one half hour so that the mail can reach its destination in 6 days.

The EES, and many friends and colleagues around the world, mourn the death of Martin Davies who sadly passed away on Tuesday 6th June 2023. Lucy Renshaw, again referred to as “L” in Edwards’ notes, once more accompanied Amelia on her journey. Among these, the sculptures being in a high state of preservation, there are a number of Pelasgians, some of whom have features of the classical Greek type, and are strikingly handsome. In this field she contributed to the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, to the American supplement of that work, and to the Standard Dictionary. I know Archaeology isn’t the only scientific field to suffer from this “man-washing” of its history.