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The Nile : travelling downriver through Egypt's past and present / Toby Wilkinson.

Wilkinson, Toby A. H. (Author).

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It was Herodotus who first called Egypt "the gift of the river." Now renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us along the Nile to reveal how it continues to hold the key to understanding the earliest of the great ancient civilizations as well as the volatile and rapidly modernizing country that is Egypt today. Wilkinson's narrative takes us from the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters--the gods and pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, through both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view.--From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780804168908 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 0804168903 (paperback)
  • Physical Description: xv, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Vintage Departures edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House LLC, 2015.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Originally published by Bloomsbury, London, in 2014."
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-280) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The Nile: Egypt's eternal river -- Aswan: source of the Nile -- The deep south: where Egypt began -- Luxor: city of wonders -- Western Thebes: realm of the dead -- Qift and Qena: the centre and the provinces -- Abydos: place of mysteries -- Middle Egypt: cradle of religion -- The Fayum: a lake in the desert -- Cairo: Egypt's capital.

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Subject: Wilkinson, Toby A. H. > Travel > Nile River.
Nile River Valley > Description and travel.
Nile River Valley > History.
Egypt > Civilization.

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The Nile : Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present
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The Nile : Travelling Downriver Through Egypt's Past and Present

Toby (A. H.) Wilkinson was born in 1969. He graduated from Downing College, University of Cambridge. with a Bachelor of Arts degree and was awarded the Thomas Mulvey Egyptology Prize. He completed his Ph. D at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1993. In 2011, Wilkinson won the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, awarded to the best work of non-fiction of historical content, for his book The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt: The History of a Civilisation from 3000 BC to Cleopatra. This book was also on the New York Times bestseller list in 2014. His other works include: Genesis of the Pharaohs: Dramatic New Discoveries That Rewrite the Origins of Ancient Egypt (2003); The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Ancient Egypt (2nd edition, 2008); and Lives of the Ancient Egyptians: Pharaohs, Queens, Courtiers and Commoners (2007). (Bowker Author Biography)

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