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Informationen zum Autor Deborah Manley is the author of a number of books on Egypt and the editor of A Cairo Anthology (AUC Press, 2013) and co-editor of A Nile Anthology (AUC Press, 2015). Klappentext Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, 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 women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon. Vorwort Egypt's fabled sights through the eyes of women travelers across the centuries Zusammenfassung Relentlessly entertaining "—Michelle Green, The New York Times Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, 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 women travelers includes Lady Evelyn Cobbold, Isabella Bird, Norma Lorimer, Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards, and Lucie Duff Gordon. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Alexandria, the Delta, and Suez What You Need to Bring, 1861 M.L.M. Carey Arriving in Egypt, 1779 Eliza Fay Entering Alexandria, 1842 Sophia Poole The Pacha’s Palace, 1861 M.L.M. Carey Onward to Cairo, 1988 Bettina Selby Women of the Delta, 1827 Anne Katherine Elwood First Sight of the Pyramids, 1846 Harriet Martineau Cairo Arriving from the Desert, 1844 Countess Hahn Hahn So Much for an Artist to See, 1899 E.M. Merrick The Scene from my Balcony, 1907 Norma Lorimer Passing in the Streets, 1852 Ida Pfeiffer The City at Night, 1870 Mary Whately Our Neighbours, May 25, 1863 Lucie Duff Gordon Processions Past the Window, 1842 Sophia Poole Khan El-Khaleelee, November, 1842 Sophia Poole Beautiful Architecture, 1907 Norma Lorimer The Cotton Bazaar—and the Water-carriers, 1914 E.L. Butcher The Bath, April, 1844 Sophia Poole The Environs of Cairo The Tombs of the Mameluke Sultans, 1828 Sarah Lushington The Pasha’s Country Palace, 1828 Sarah Lushington The Pasha’s Garden at Shoobra, 1853 Lady Tobin Ascending the Pyramid, 1845 Harriet Martineau A Trip into the Interior, 1938 Mary Chubb Up the Nile from Cairo Our Dahabieh, 1844 Isabel Romer A Prayer on Starting, 1842 Sophia Poole Our Boat from Luxor, 1827 Sarah Lushington Met along the Way, 1875 Mary Whately Nile Days—on the S.S. Ramses the Great, 1907 Norma Lorimer Meeting Crocodiles, 1845 Isabel Romer Met on the Nile, 1827 Wolfradine Minutoli Harvest, January 1874 Marianne North Nubia and Beyond and Turning North Approaching Nubia, 1861 M.L.M. Carey The Nubian Women, 1827 Wolfradine Minutoli Assouan, 1844 Countess Hahn Hahn The High Dam, 2006 Rosemary Mahoney The Adventure of the Cataract, January 25, 1882 Sophia de Franqueville The Temple of Isis, 1855 Lady Tobin The Tropic of Cancer, 1873 Amelia Edwards Dakkeh, Maharaka, Wady es Subua—and Abu Simbel, 1851 Emily Hornby A Mighty Abode, 1907 Norma Lorimer The Furthest Point, 184...
