The Nile: A Journey Downriver Through Egypt’s Past and Present (Vintage Departures)

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A hypnotic journey within the company of one of the most world’s so much acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to an ancient civilization now dead and the way it sustained its successors, now in tumult.

Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads us through space up to time: 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 only surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and in spite of everything, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted at the bridges over the Nile. Along the way in which, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters-the gods, godlike 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 a lens equal to both panoramas and shut-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view.

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