A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

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Not even the poem of Pentaur is more picturesque, not even the Psalms of David are more fervid, than the style of this great Chronicle.

That he should, as a boy, have designed public buildings and superintended their construction is extremely probable.We came back to find the old mooring-place alive with dahabeeyahs, and gay with English and American colours.

He has four: a short walk, like the rolling of a small boat in a chopping sea; a long walk, which dislocates every bone in your body; a trot that reduces you to imbecility; and a gallop that is sudden death. When we have gone a long way, always tracking up the bed of the torrent, we come to a place where our donkeys turn off from the main course and make for what is evidently a forced passage cut clean through a wall of solid limestone. Through the opening in the centre, one looks straight into the little waggon-roofed apse, which contains a small table and a suspended lamp, and is as dark as the sanctuary of an Egyptian temple. The artists of Egyptian Renaissance, always great in profile-portraiture, are nowhere seen to better advantage than in this interesting series. Su travesía por el río Nilo a bordo de la dahabiya Philae y las ciudades, lugares y centros de interés de carácter egiptológico por los que pasa.The monumental intention of this building is shown by its dedication to Hathor, the Lady of Amenti; and by the fact that the tomb of Queen Hatshepsu was identified by Rhind some twenty-five years ago as one of the excavated sepulchres in the cliff-side, close to where the temple ends by abutting against the rock. A grave Arab dropped in once or twice after nightfall, and talked it over vaguely with the dragoman; but never came to the point. Edwards was an influential figure in nineteenth-century British Egyptology and A Thousand Miles Up the Nile is probably the best known British travel book on Egypt. Each dipped his own spoon in the soup, dived into the stew, and pulled off pieces of fish or lamb with his fingers.

His solos consisted of plaintive airs and extemporised variations, embroidered with difficult, and sometimes extravagant, cadenzas. All more or less partake of that Dantesque type which characterises the portraits of Rameses II in his youth. In the winter of 1873–1874, accompanied by several friends, Edwards toured Egypt, discovering a fascination with the land and its cultures, both ancient and modern. The première danseuse was a fine woman and rather handsome; but in the "belle" of the company, a thick-lipped Nubian, we could discover no charm whatever. By and by came the Governor, the Kadî of Luxor, the Prussian Consul and his son, and some three or four grave-looking merchants in rich silk robes and ample turbans.Toen reizen nog een avontuur was, toen Egyptische oudheden nog half onder het zand lagen, toen je zelf onderweg nog eens een tombe kon openen, of een waterpijpje roken met een lokale sjeik. It is a classic travelogue that provides a fascinating and enlightening look at the history and culture of ancient Egypt and the Sudan. I came to this book after coming across a reference to the author at the "Beyond Beauty" Egypt exhibition in London. Three of these (unlike any engraved in the works of Wilkinson or Rosellini) are here reproduced from his sketch made upon the spot.