Women on the Nile - Hardcover

Women on the Nile. Writings of Harriet Martineau, Florence Nightingale and Amelia Edwards.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Sehr gut. viii, 188 p., Ill. Das Exemplar ist in einem sehr guten und sauberen Zustand ohne Anstreichungen. / The copy is in a very good and clean condition without markings. -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Author's Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- I Harriet Martineau -- II Florence Nightingale -- III Amelia Edwards -- IV 'When one sits among the people' -- Appendices: -- I: excerpts from Eastern Life by Harriet Martineau -- II: excerpts from Florence Nightingale's Letters from Egypt -- III: excerpts from Amelia Edwards' A Thousand Miles up the Nile -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- The picture section appears between pages 96 and 97 -- List of Illustrations -- 1 Harriet Martineau in domestic mood. Photograph by M. Bowness. By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. -- 2 Florence Nightingale, from a carte de visite. By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. -- 3 Amelia Edwards. Photograph reproduced by courtesy of the Principal and Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford. -- 4 Lucie Duff Gordon. Portrait by Henry Phillips, 1851. By courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery. -- 5 A Street in Cairo. John Varley. Oil on canvas, 1878. By courtesy of the Mathaf Gallery. -- 6 Kom Ombo. Private collection. -- 7 Village scene. Watercolour. Frank Dillon, 1855. Private collection. -- 8 Obelisk and great hypostyle hall, Karnak. Private collection. -- 9 Colossi of Memnon. Watercolour. Carl Werner, 1865. Private collection. -- 10 Philae, Kiosk of Trajan. Watercolour. Carl Werner, 1866. Private collection. -- 11 Exterior of the Great Temple, Abu Simbel, showing the colossal figures of Rameses II. -- 12 Amelia Edwards's sketch of part of Luxor Temple showing on the roof the so-called French House where Lucie Duff Gordon lived. ISBN 9780948695742 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 472. Artikel-Nr. 1276392

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