A Thousand Miles up the Nile

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (1831 - 1892)

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)

Genre(s): *Non-fiction, History, Travel & Geography

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Preface to the First and Second Editions Sibella Denton
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Play 01 Ch. I: Cairo and the Great Pyramid, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 02 Ch. I: Cairo and the Great Pyramid, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 04 Ch. II: Cairo and the Mecca Pilgrimage, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 06 Ch. II: Cairo and the Mecca Pilgrimage, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 07 Ch. III: Cairo to Bedreshayn, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 08 Ch. III: Cairo to Bedreshayn, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 09 Ch. III: Cairo to Bedreshayn, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 10 Ch. IV: Sakkârah and Memphis, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 11 Ch. IV: Sakkârah and Memphis, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 12 Ch. IV: Sakkârah and Memphis, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 13 Ch. V: Bedreshayn to Minieh, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 16 Ch. VI: Minieh to Siût, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 19 Ch. VII: Siût to Denderah, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 22 Ch. VIII: Thebes and Karnak, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 23 Ch. VIII: Thebes and Karnak, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 25 Ch. IX: Thebes to Assûan, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 28 Ch. X: Assûan and Elephantine, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 31 Ch. XI: The Cataract and the Desert, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 32 Ch. XI: The Cataract and the Desert, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 33 Ch. XI: The Cataract and the Desert, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 34 Ch. XII: Philæ, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 35 Ch. XII: Philæ, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 36 Ch. XII: Philæ, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 37 Ch. XIII: Philæ to Korosko, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 38 Ch. XIII: Philæ to Korosko, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 39 Ch. XIII: Philæ to Korosko, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 40 Ch. XIV: Korosko to Abou Simbel, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 41 Ch. XIV: Korosko to Abou Simbel, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 42 Ch. XIV: Korosko to Abou Simbel, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 43 Ch. XV: Rameses the Great, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 46 Ch. XVI: Abou Simbel, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 47 Ch. XVI: Abou Simbel, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 48 Ch. XVI: Abou Simbel, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 49 Ch. XVII: The Second Cataract, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 50 Ch. XVII: The Second Cataract, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 51 Ch. XVII: The Second Cataract, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 52 Ch. XVIII: Discoveries at Abou Simbel, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 53 Ch. XVIII: Discoveries at Abou Simbel, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 54 Ch. XVIII: Discoveries at Abou Simbel, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 55 Ch. XIX: Back Through Nubia, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 56 Ch. XIX: Back Through Nubia, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 57 Ch. XIX: Back Through Nubia, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 58 Ch. XX: Silsilis and Edfu, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 59 Ch. XX: Silsilis and Edfu, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 60 Ch. XX: Silsilis and Edfu, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 61 Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 62 Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 63 Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 64 Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 4 Sibella Denton
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Play 65 Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 5 Sibella Denton
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Play 66 Ch. XXI: Thebes, pt. 6 Sibella Denton
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Play 67 Ch. XXII: Abydus and Cairo, pt 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 68 Ch. XXII: Abydus and Cairo, pt 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 69 Ch. XXII: Abydus and Cairo, pt 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 70 Appendix 1 Sibella Denton
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Play 71 Appendix 2 Sibella Denton
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Play 72 Appendix 3 Sibella Denton
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Play 73 Appendix 4 Sibella Denton
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Play 74 Appendix 5 Sibella Denton
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