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Women Travelers in Egypt
Until late in the nineteenth century, few guide books acknowledged the presence of women as travelers - although women had been traveling around the world for centuries. Women's accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth century, and Egypt was a popular destination. Women had more time to watch and describe and they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni, Sophia Poole, and Ellen Chennells, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their experiences as observers of an exotic culture, with special access to some places no man could ever go. From Eliza Fay's description of arriving in Egypt in 1779 to Rosemary Mahoney's daring trip down the Nile in a rowboat in 2006, this lively collection of writing by over forty women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Winifred Blackman, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon.
Cakes and Ale
Edward Spencer's 1913 work is a collection of food essays interspersed with recipes and recollections of memorable meals.
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Cheap Jack Zita
'Cheap Jack Zita' is an adventure novel by Sabine Baring-Gould, set in the English Fenlands. Zita, a young woman, is the daughter of a 'Cheap Jack', a trader of wares and they both travel around in a caravan. Zita is quite close to her father since the death of her mother when she was young. His unexpected death one evening sets off a drastic change to Zita's life as she goes to stay at Prickwillows, the home of 'Ki' Drownlands. Ki seems interested in his new house guest but she is more drawn to Mark Runham. Both Zita and Mark are united by the deaths of both their fathers on that same fateful night. But when the hazy memory of that night comes back to Zita, she begins to suspect that Ki had something to do with the death of Mark's father...
Akhenaten
The pharaoh Akhenaten, who ruled Egypt in the mid-fourteenth century BCE, has been the subject of more speculation than any other character in Egyptian history. This provocative new biography examines both the real Akhenaten and the myths that have been created around him. It scrutinises the history of the pharaoh and his reign, which has been continually written in Eurocentric terms inapplicable to ancient Egypt, and the archaeology of Akhenaten's capital city, Amarna. It goes on to explore the pharaoh's extraordinary cultural afterlife, and the way he has been invoked to validate everything from psychoanalysis to racial equality to Fascism.
A Cairo Anthology
Cairo (Egypt); description and travel.
Britain's Deadly Peril: Are We Told the Truth?
Reproduction of the original.
