The Nile : downriver through Egypt's past and present
Wilkinson, Toby A. H.2015
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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, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta.
Main title:
The Nile : downriver through Egypt's past and present / Toby Wilkinson.
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Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
Collation:
xv, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408843567 (pbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
2207445
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