A Thousand Miles up the Nile
by Amelia B. Edwards
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/none included
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 1891. Second Edition. Good/none included. A vibrant blue cloth bound book with gilt edges and lettering on spine and cover. Cover Soiled. Former owners name on front endpaper and cover. Ex-library, from a personal library. Front cover loose. Heavy shelf wear to top of spine and heavy bumping to corners. Light water damage and some foxing to front and end papers. 499 pp, Illustrated by author, "Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn't leave home. One of the pioneering Egyptologists of the age, she established the Edwards Chair of Egyptology, occupied first by the great Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. This book is in a sense a seminal work, known to have influenced the modern writings of Elizabeth Peters in her Amelia Peabody Emerson murder-mystery series." (Summary by Sibella Denton, GoodReads.com)
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Details
- Seller
- The Chattanooga Public Library Foundation (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 2109140001
- Title
- A Thousand Miles up the Nile
- Author
- Amelia B. Edwards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- none included
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge and Sons, Limited
- Date Published
- 1891
- Keywords
- africa, women authors, female author, travel, first hand observations, sktches, illustration,
Terms of Sale
The Chattanooga Public Library Foundation
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Chattanooga Public Library Foundation
Biblio member since 2022
Chattanooga, Tennessee
About The Chattanooga Public Library Foundation
Located in downtown Chattanooga in the beautiful Tennessee Valley where three states meet, we are pleased to offer a wide selection of books obtained from donations and library withdrawals. All of the proceeds from our book sales go straight to the Chattanooga Public Library Foundation for the support of our local library system.
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- Gilt
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