Egypt
Destination: Egypt Book: The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger (Org. publ. 2009; NEW U. S. paperback edition) A tour of the Nile River to Luxor sounds pretty exotic even in the 21st century. But just imagine the adventure and hardship of such travel in the 19th century. The historical travel novel lets us see [...]
PDF If you are interested in Egypt, one of the world’s current trouble spots, but also a perennial tourism favorite, take a look at my review of the Cadogan Guide to Egypt. (Turning back the clock, I’m focusing on Alexander in Egypt). Brand new post that just went up today! While you are there, poke around [...]
Like a deadly domino game, the unrest keeps coming in the Arab world. Tunisia, Yemin, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Algeria, Jordan. Most travelers are shying away from, for example, tourist-dependent Egypt. In private correspondence, an American who lives there reports seeing 30-200 people in the Valley of the Kings (mostly Egyptians), where normally there would be [...]
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Destination: Egypt Movies: Many Don’t Pay the Camel Driver until You Get to the Pyramid Guest Post by Traveler’s Bro “About Egypt I shall have a great deal more to relate because of a number of remarkable things which the country contains…” Herodotus, The Histories Print PDF
DESTINATION: Egypt Book: Death Comes at the End by Agatha Christie A GUEST POST by Dr. Benedict Davies As the regulars at A Traveler’s Library know, I love historical travel. Dr. Davies, who shares his love of Egypt here, has a great new company that provides audio guides to historic sites. See an announcement from Iconic [...]
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Why read old stuff when there is so much new stuff? Because what was written by the ancients, or by travelers in earlier centuries, can give today’s traveler a sense of the underpinnings of today’s culture of a place. I have already sung the praises of using Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wars as a [...]
