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Down The Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff

Down The Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff Paperback / softback - 2008

by Rosemary Mahoney

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Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Despite the extreme conditions, her informed curiosity about the world, her glorious prose, and her wit never fail to captivate.

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Paperback / softback. New. An exciting and amusing adventure that offers a fresh view of Egypt in the past and the present - by a prize-winning author
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  • Title Down The Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
  • Author Rosemary Mahoney
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition 1 Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Back Bay Books, U.S.A.
  • Date 2008-09-01
  • Features Bibliography, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780316019019
  • ISBN 9780316019019 / 0316019011
  • Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 6.58 x 0.82 in (20.83 x 16.71 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Egypt - Description and travel, Nile River - Description and travel
  • Dewey Decimal Code 916.204

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  • New York Times Book Review, 11/09/2008, Page 52

About the author

Rose Tremain's fiction has won the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music and Silence) and has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (Restoration) and the Orange Prize (The Colour). Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, among other periodicals, and one was selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008. Rose Tremain lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer Richard Holmes.