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Egyptian Tales The Phantom Of The Nile
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Author : Terry Deary
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2017-09-07
Egyptian Tales The Phantom Of The Nile written by Terry Deary and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
From the bestselling author of Horrible Histories... Menes is training as a scribe in the local temple, and to earn extra money to help his poor family, he agrees to assist rich old Maiarch. Menes must write a prayer to rid Maiarch of an old family ghost. But what if the ghost is actually more human than supernatural? It will take all of Menes's skill and ingenuity to find out the truth... Terry Deary's Egyptian Tales explore the world of Ancient Egypt through the eyes of children who could have lived at the time. These stories feature real people and take place in some of the most recognisable Egyptian settings. This new edition features notes for the reader to help extend learning and exploration of the historical period.
The Phantom Atlas
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Author : Edward Brooke-Hitching
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-11-03
The Phantom Atlas written by Edward Brooke-Hitching and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-03 with Technology & Engineering categories.
A STUNNINGLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK REVEALING THE GREATEST MYTHS, LIES AND BLUNDERS ON MAPS 'Highly recommended' - Andrew Marr 'A spectacular, enjoyable and eye-opening read' - Jonathan Ross The Phantom Atlas is an atlas of the world not as it ever existed, but as it was thought to be. These marvellous and mysterious phantoms - non-existent islands, invented mountain ranges, mythical civilisations and other fictitious geography - were all at various times presented as facts on maps and atlases. This book is a collection of striking antique maps that display the most erroneous cartography, with each illustration accompanied by the story behind it. Exploration, map-making and mythology are all brought together to create a colourful tapestry of monsters, heroes and volcanoes; swindlers, mirages and murderers. Sometimes the stories are almost impossible to believe, and remarkably, some of the errors were still on display in maps published in the 21st century. Throughout much of the 19th century more than 40 different mapmakers included the Mountains of Kong, a huge range of peaks stretching across the entire continent of Africa, in their maps - but it was only in 1889 when Louis Gustave Binger revealed the whole thing to be a fake. For centuries, explorers who headed to Patagonia returned with tales of the giants they had met who lived there, some nine feet tall. Then there was Gregor MacGregor, a Scottish explorer who returned to London to sell shares in a land he had discovered in South America. He had been appointed the Cazique of Poyais, and bestowed with many honours by the local king of this unspoiled paradise. Now he was offering others the chance to join him and make their fortune there, too - once they had paid him a bargain fee for their passage... The Phantom Atlas is a beautifully produced volume, packed with stunning maps and drawingsof places and people that never existed. The remarkable stories behind them all are brilliantly told by Edward Brooke-Hitching in a book that will appeal to cartophiles everywhere.
The Nile Without A Dragoman
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Author : Frederic Eden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871
The Nile Without A Dragoman written by Frederic Eden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Egypt categories.
Boat Life In Egypt And Nubia
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Author : William Cowper Prime
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
Boat Life In Egypt And Nubia written by William Cowper Prime and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with Egypt categories.
Boat Life In Egypte And Nubia
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Author : WILLIAM C. PRIME
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
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A Thousand Miles Up The Nile
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Author : Amelia Ann Blandford
language : en
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Release Date : 2017
A Thousand Miles Up The Nile written by Amelia Ann Blandford and has been published by Jazzybee Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Travel categories.
Miss Blandfords' 'A Thousand Miles Up the Nile ' is one of the classics of the literature of Egypt. Her work as an Egyptologist, and deserved reputation as such, began with the expedition of which it is the narrative. The author has studied her subjects with great care; she has consulted and compared authorities ancient and modern, with much industry; and her examination of the remains she describes was a labor of love and enthusiasm. . . Nor does she confine her attention to art and archaeology. She gives many fresh and lively sketches of the often described life of the dahabecah; of its great events, such as sand-storms and of the natives.
The Nile Quest
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Author : Harry Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-11-17
The Nile Quest written by Harry Johnston and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-17 with History categories.
A comprehensive history of Nile exploration, first published in 1903, written by a key figure in the British Empire's expansion.
A Thousand Miles Up The Nile
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Author : Amelia B. Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
A Thousand Miles Up The Nile written by Amelia B. Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Egypt categories.
Moses
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Author : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1870
Moses written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1870 with Poetry categories.
The Last Egyptian A Romance Of The Nile
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Author : Lyman Frank Baum
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
The Last Egyptian A Romance Of The Nile written by Lyman Frank Baum and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Egypt categories.
The sun fell hot upon the bosom of the Nile and clung there, vibrant, hesitating, yet aggressive, as if baffled in its desire to penetrate beneath the river’s lurid surface. For the Nile defies the sun, and relegates him to his own broad domain, wherein his power is undisputed. On either side the broad stream humanity shrank from Ra’s seething disc. The shaduf workers had abandoned their skin-covered buckets and bamboo poles to seek shelter from the heat beneath a straggling tree or a straw mat elevated on stalks of ripe sugar-cane. The boats of the fishermen lay in little coves, where the sails were spread as awnings to shade their crews. The fellaheen laborers had all retired to their clay huts to sleep through this fiercest period of the afternoon heat. On the Nile, however, a small steam dahabeah puffed lazily along, stemming with its slow motion the sweep of the mighty river toward the sea. The Arab stoker, naked and sweating, stood as far as possible from the little boiler and watched it with a look of absolute repulsion upon his swarthy face. The engineer, also an Arab, lay stretched upon the deck half asleep, but with both ears alert to catch any sound that might denote the fact that the straining, rickety engine was failing to perform its full duty. Back of the tiny cabin sat the dusky steersman, as naked and inert as his fellows, while under the deck awning reclined the one white man of the party, a young Englishman clothed in khaki knickerbockers and a white silk shirt well open at the throat. There were no tourists in Egypt at this season. If you find a white man on the Nile in April, he is either attached to some exploration party engaged in excavations or a government employee from Cairo, Assyut or Luxor, bent upon an urgent mission. The dahabeah was not a government boat, though, so that our Englishman was more likely to be an explorer than an official. It was evident he was no stranger to tropical climes, if we judged by his sun-browned skin and the quiet resignation to existing conditions with which he puffed his black briar and relaxed his muscular frame. He did not sleep, but lay with his head upon a low wicker rest that enabled him to sweep the banks of the Nile with his keen blue eyes.