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Down The Nile
On sale
2nd October 2008
Price: £15.99
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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780316019019
When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a female, she confronted deeply-held beliefs about foreign women while cautiously remaining open to genuine friendship; and, as a traveller, she experienced events that ranged from the humorous to the hair-raising – including an encounter that began as one of the most frightening of her life and ended as an edifying and chastening lesson in human nature and cultural misunderstanding.
Whether she’s meeting Nubians and Egyptians, or finding connections to Westerners who travelled up the Nile in earlier times – Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert among them – Mahoney’s informed curiosity about the world never ceases to captivate the reader.
Whether she’s meeting Nubians and Egyptians, or finding connections to Westerners who travelled up the Nile in earlier times – Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert among them – Mahoney’s informed curiosity about the world never ceases to captivate the reader.
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Reviews
Mahoney, who has been rowing for 10 year, brilliantly juxtaposes an account of her own palm-blistering hours on the Nile....with the diary entries of two Victorian travelers-Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale.
Sensuous and richly textured writing and an eye for vivid and startling details
Utterly frank; sometimes rather scary; often extremely witty, brave and revealing in its generalizations; and above all essentially kind