Women travelers in Egypt : from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century /
"Until late in the nineteenth century, few guidebooks acknowledged the presence of women as travelers--although women had been traveling around the world for centuries. Women's accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early n...
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Cairo ; New York :
American University in Cairo Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Alexandria, the Delta, and Suez
- Cairo
- The environs of Cairo
- Up the Nile from Cairo
- Nubia and beyond and turning north
- Northward down the Nile
- Luxor and the West Bank : the Thebes of old
- Egypt beyond the Nile : the desert
- The travelers : brief biographies.