Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

Of all those admirable and doughty Victorian lady-travellers Miss Amelia Edwards is surely one of the brightest lights, and this, her classic introduction to ancient Egypt, still stands up like an obelisk above the bulk of learned tomes and endlessly churned out travel guides. successful writer and a talented artist and musician when, in middle-age, bad weather unexpectedly changed her life. Her painting holiday in France sabotaged, she took a boat from Marseilles to Alexandria, and hired a dahabiyah to venture up the Nile. The rest of her life she devoted tirelessly to the setting-up of professional excavation in Egypt, founding the Egypt Exploration Fund (with Reginald Stuart Poole) and establishing the first chair of Egyptology in England at University College, initially occupied by her protege Flinders Petrie. of Egypt are daily unfolded before her, is lost from the subsequent research and painstaking erudition she crams into these pages. The joy is as fresh as when first felt, and the reader feels privileged to share these experiences with her.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile

Thousand Miles up the Nile

Pharaohs, fellahs and explorers

Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers

Egypt and Its Monuments

A New Novelette

Monsieur Maurice

Half a Million of Money: a Novel

Half a Million of Money

An illustrated 1873 account of two women's bold journey through the largely unexplored and inaccessible Dolomites in the Italian Alps.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys

Ballads

A poetry-book of elder poets, selected and arranged by A. B. Edwards

Debenham's Vow

Consisting of Songs & Sonnets, Odes & Lyrics. Selected and Arranged, with Notes, from the Works of the Elder English Poets, Dating from the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century

A Poetry-book of Elder Poets

In the Days of My Youth

Debenham's Vow ...

Miss Carew

Consisting of Songs & Sonnets, Odes & Lyrics, Selected and Arranged, with Notes, from the Works of the Elder English Poets, Dating from the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century

Barbara's History

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

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