A thousand miles up the Nile

About “A thousand miles up the Nile”

Amelia Edwards' book recounts her 1873 journey up the Nile in a dehabeeyah, a boat with a crew of twenty men, drawing rooms, servants, a piano, and high tea. She describes her travels through fragrant marketplaces, mud-walled villages, shadowy nomads, Nubian belles, and the tombs of long forgotten kings, accompanied by characters such as the "Painter" and the "Happy Couple".