Down The Nile

Author : Rosemary Mahoney
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-11
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780316007320

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Down the Nile by Rosemary Mahoney Pdf

Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians. Egyptian women don't row on the Nile, and tourists aren't allowed to for safety's sake. Mahoney endures extreme heat during the day, and a terror of crocodiles while alone in her boat at night. Whether she's confronting deeply held beliefs about non-Muslim women, finding connections to past chroniclers of the Nile, or coming to the dramaticm realization that fear can engender unwarranted violence, Rosemary Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world, her glorious prose, and her wit never fail to captivate.

Author : Laurie Krebs
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9781846860409

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We're Sailing Down the Nile by Laurie Krebs Pdf

As the riverboat sails down the Nile River, remnants of Egypt's long history and aspects of its present culture are revealed on its banks. Includes end notes with additional information about ancient Egyptian culture.

Author : John Goddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061466077

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Kayaks Down the Nile by John Goddard Pdf

Author : Toby Wilkinson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781408839935

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The Nile by Toby Wilkinson Pdf

From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life – fishing, farming, flooding – continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta. The country is a palimpsest, every age has left its trace: as we pass the Nilometer on the island of Elephantine which since the days of the Pharaohs has measured the height of Nile floodwaters to predict the following season's agricultural yield and set the parameters for the entire Egyptian economy, the wonders of Giza which bear the scars of assault by nineteenth-century archaeologists and the modern-day unbridled urban expansion of Cairo – and in Egypt's earliest art (prehistoric images of fish-traps carved into cliffs) and the Arab Spring (fought on the bridges of Cairo) – the Nile is our guide to understanding the past and present of this unique, chaotic, vital, conservative yet rapidly changing land.

Author : James Patterson,Chris Grabenstein
Publisher : jimmy patterson
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780316207553

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Treasure Hunters by James Patterson,Chris Grabenstein Pdf

Join the famous treasure-hunting Kidds on their first adventure ever! The #1 New York Times bestselling series from James Patterson is jam-packed with action, humor, and heart! The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. But when their parents disappear on the job, the kids are suddenly thrust into the biggest treasure hunt of their lives. They'll have to work together to defeat dangerous pirates and dodge the hot pursuit of an evil treasure hunting rival, all while following cryptic clues to unravel the mystery of what really happened to their parents—and find out if they're still alive.

Author : James Patterson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781448108480

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Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile by James Patterson Pdf

Four kids on a quest to find the legendary Mines of King Solomon... and their parents. Bick, Beck, Storm and Tommy are navigating their way down the Nile, from hot and dusty Cairo to deep dark jungles, past some seriously bad guys along the way. They’ll need all their survival instincts just to make it out alive...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Puffin Books
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1996-07-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780698114005

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Bill and Pete by Anonim Pdf

When William Everett Crocodile is chosen to be a suitcase, his talking toothbrush becomes his salvation.

Author : Levison Wood
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780802190680

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Walking the Nile by Levison Wood Pdf

The explorer and author of Walking the Americas and Walking the Himalayas delivers “a bold travelogue, illuminating great swathes of modern Africa” (Kirkus Reviews). Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda—where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water—writer, photographer, and explorer Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the fabled river. He followed the Nile for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations—Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of Sudan, and Egypt—to the Mediterranean coast. Like his predecessors, Wood camped in the wild, foraged for food, and trudged through rainforest, swamp, savannah, and desert, enduring life-threatening conditions at every turn. He traversed sandstorms, flash floods, minefields, and more, becoming a local celebrity in Uganda, where a popular rap song was written about him, and a potential enemy of the state in South Sudan, where he found himself caught in a civil war and detained by the secret police. As well as recounting his triumphs, like escaping a charging hippo and staving off wild crocodiles, Wood’s gripping account recalls the loss of Matthew Power, a journalist who died suddenly from heat exhaustion during their trek. As Wood walks on, often joined by local guides who help him to navigate foreign languages and customs, Walking the Nile maps out African history and contemporary life. “Woods emerges as a dutiful and brave guide.”—Los Angeles Times “Many have attempted this holy grail of an expedition—so I admire Lev’s determination and courage to pull this off.”—Bear Grylls “A brilliant book.”—Financial Times

Author : Carl Benn
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550028676

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Mohawks on the Nile by Carl Benn Pdf

Mohawks on the Nile explores the absorbing history of 60 Aboriginal men who participated in a military expedition on the Nile River.

Author : Richard Bangs,Pasquale Scaturro
Publisher : Signet
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0451217551

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Mystery of the Nile by Richard Bangs,Pasquale Scaturro Pdf

A thrilling account of the greatest historical expedition of our time, this work highlights the first-ever complete descent of the Nile River in 2004. 16-page color insert.

Author : Mary Chamberlin,Mary and Rich Chamberlin,Rich Chamberlin
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1905236646

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Mama Panya's Pancakes by Mary Chamberlin,Mary and Rich Chamberlin,Rich Chamberlin Pdf

Mama Panya is alarmed at the market when her son Adika invites all of their friends to come over for pancakes. However will she feed them all? This clever and heart-warming story about village life teaches children the benefits of sharing as well as introducing simple Swahili phrases.

Author : Enid Shomer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451642988

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The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer Pdf

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 the imaginative leap taken by award-winning writer Enid Shomer’s The Twelve Rooms of the Nile, the two ignite a passionate friendship marked by intelligence, humor, and a ravishing tenderness that will alter both their destinies. In 1850, Florence, daughter of a prominent English family, sets sail on the Nile chaperoned by longtime family friends and her maid, Trout. To her family’s chagrin—and in spite of her wealth, charm, and beauty—she is, at twenty-nine and of her own volition, well on her way to spinsterhood. Meanwhile, Gustave and his good friend Maxime Du Camp embark on an expedition to document the then largely unexplored monuments of ancient Egypt. Traumatized by the deaths of his father and sister, and plagued by mysterious seizures, Flaubert has dropped out of law school and writ-ten his first novel, an effort promptly deemed unpublishable by his closest friends. At twenty-eight, he is an unproven writer with a failing body. Florence is a woman with radical ideas about society and God, naive in the ways of men. Gustave is a notorious womanizer and patron of innumerable prostitutes. But both burn with unfulfilled ambition, and in the deft hands of Shomer, whose writing The New York Times Book Review has praised as “beautifully cadenced, and surprising in its imaginative reach,” the unlikely soul mates come together to share their darkest torments and most fervent hopes. Brimming with adventure and the sparkling sensibilities of the two travelers, this mesmerizing novel offers a luminous combination of gorgeous prose and wild imagination, all of it colored by the opulent tapestry of mid-nineteenth-century Egypt.

Author : Cynthia Myntti
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9774166531

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Paris Along the Nile by Cynthia Myntti Pdf

Cairo, 'Mother of the World': its vividly diverse neighborhoods and building styles reveal its cosmopolitan energy and reflect the myriad of economic, political, and cultural forces that have shaped the city over the centuries. So impressed was Khedive Ismail after a visit to Haussman's 'new' Paris in 1867 that he decided to build a modern city along the same architectural lines and aesthetics, and brought European architects to Cairo to initiate Egypt's most dynamic building period since medieval times. The stunning buildings of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Cairo remain, but they are neglected, threatened by pollution, and are being pulled down for concrete highrises and parking lots. Paris along the Nile captures in 200 black-and-white photographs the architectural jewels of 'modern' Cairo.

Author : Tammy Gagne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Nile River
ISBN : 1612282946

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The Nile River by Tammy Gagne Pdf

Discusses the ecology, history and importance of the Nile river.

Author : Terje Tvedt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755616817

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The Nile by Terje Tvedt Pdf

“[A] vivid travelogue.” New Statesman “Has much to offer.” The Spectator "Sparks the imagination." BBC History Magazine "A fascinating study." BBC History Revealed Magazine “Essential reading." All About History "Valiant, valuable and entertaining." Times Literary Supplement The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world's leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river's mouth to its sources. The result is a travelogue through 5000 years and 11 countries, from the Mediterranean to Central Africa. This is the fascinating story of the immense economic, political and mythical significance of the river. Brimming with accounts of central characters in the struggle for the Nile – from Caesar and Cleopatra, to Churchill and Mussolini, and on to the political leaders of today, The Nile is also the story of water as it nourished a civilization.