On the Nile : in the golden age of travel /
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Cairo ; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
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Call Number: DT116 .H86 2015
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a On the Nile : |b in the golden age of travel / |c Andrew Humphreys. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Cairo ; |a New York : |b The American University in Cairo Press, |c 2015. | |
| 300 | |a 184 pages : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a OCLC 887850893 | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-179) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Miss Riggs goes abroad : Thomas Cook's first guided tour to Egypt and up the Nile -- Four months in a Dahabiya : early visitors under sail on the Nile -- A monopoly on the Nile : Thomas Cook and son become masters of the river -- Cook goes to war : Cook & Son's role in the British-Egyptian campaigns in Sudan -- Floating palaces : Cook & Son's new fleet of first-class Nile river steamers -- Life aboard : the attractions and diversions of cruising the Nile under steam -- Egypt, Arabia, and Sudan : competition on the Nile and three new Cook & Son steamers -- Death on the Nile : a dead pharaoh, multiple murders, and the threat of the railways -- The end of the Cook & Son era and the emergence of the modern Nile cruise business -- The Nile fleets : An A-Z of steamers used on the Nile passenger services from the 1880s until the Second World War. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Steamboats |z Egypt. |9 11896 | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Egypt |x Description and travel. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Nile River Valley |x Description and travel |y 19th century. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Nile River Valley |x Description and travel |y 20th century. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Ombler, Gary. |9 37101 | |
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