On the Nile : in the golden age of travel /
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Language: English
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Cairo ; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2015.
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Call Number: DT116 .H86 2015
Table of Contents:
- 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.