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A Thousand Miles up the Nile

by Amelia Ann Blanford EDWARDS (1831 - 1892)

Ch. VI: Minieh to Siût, pt. 2

Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn't leave home. One of the pioneering Egyptologists of the age, she established the Edwards Chair of Egyptology, occupied first by the great Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. This book is in a sense a seminal work, known to have influenced the modern writings of Elizabeth Peters in her Amelia Peabody Emerson murder-mystery series. (Summary by Sibella Denton)

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Listen next episodes of A Thousand Miles up the Nile:
Appendix 1 , Appendix 2 , Appendix 3 , Appendix 4 , Appendix 5 , Ch. IX: Thebes to Assûan, pt. 1 , Ch. IX: Thebes to Assûan, pt. 2 , Ch. IX: Thebes to Assûan, pt. 3 , Ch. VI: Minieh to Siût, pt. 3 , Ch. VII: Siût to Denderah, pt. 1 , Ch. VII: Siût to Denderah, pt. 2 , Ch. VII: Siût to Denderah, pt. 3 , Ch. VIII: Thebes and Karnak, pt. 1 , Ch. VIII: Thebes and Karnak, pt. 2 , Ch. VIII: Thebes and Karnak, pt. 3 , Ch. X: Assûan and Elephantine, pt. 1 , Ch. X: Assûan and Elephantine, pt. 2 , Ch. X: Assûan and Elephantine, pt. 3 , Ch. XI: The Cataract and the Desert, pt. 1 , Ch. XI: The Cataract and the Desert, pt. 2 , Ch. XI: The Cataract and the Desert, pt. 3 , Ch. XII: Philæ, pt. 1 , Ch. XII: Philæ, pt. 2 , Ch. XII: Philæ, pt. 3 , Ch. XIII: Philæ to Korosko, pt. 1 , Ch. XIII: Philæ to Korosko, pt. 2 , Ch. XIII: Philæ to Korosko, pt. 3 , Ch. XIV: Korosko to Abou Simbel, pt. 1 , Ch. XIV: Korosko to Abou Simbel, pt. 2 , Ch. XIV: Korosko to Abou Simbel, pt. 3 , Ch. XIX: Back Through Nubia, pt. 1 , Ch. XIX: Back Through Nubia, pt. 2 , Ch. XIX: Back Through Nubia, pt. 3 , Ch. XV: Rameses the Great, pt. 1 , Ch. XV: Rameses the Great, pt. 2 , Ch. XV: Rameses the Great, pt. 3 , Ch. XVI: Abou Simbel, pt. 1 , Ch. XVI: Abou Simbel, pt. 2 , Ch. XVI: Abou Simbel, pt. 3 , Ch. XVII: The Second Cataract, pt. 1 , Ch. XVII: The Second Cataract, pt. 2 , Ch. XVII: The Second Cataract, pt. 3 , Ch. XVIII: Discoveries at Abou Simbel, pt. 1 , Ch. XVIII: Discoveries at Abou Simbel, pt. 2 , Ch. XVIII: Discoveries at Abou Simbel, pt. 3 , Ch. XX: Silsilis and Edfu, pt. 1 , Ch. XX: Silsilis and Edfu, pt. 2 , Ch. XX: Silsilis and Edfu, pt. 3 , Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 1 , Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 2 , Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 3 , Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 4 , Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 5 , Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 6 , Ch. XXII: Abydus and Cairo, pt 1 , Ch. XXII: Abydus and Cairo, pt 2 , Ch. XXII: Abydus and Cairo, pt 3