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CARRINGTON, Richard.
The Tears of Isis. The Story of a New Journey from the Mouth to the Source of the Nile.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. First edition.
Cloth, 256pp.
Fine in d/w.
An account of Carrington's journey from Rosetta, at the mouth of the Nile, to Lake Victoria; a distance of some 3,500 miles. The author was able to see many aspects of Egypt's life and landscape not normally accessible to tourists; as well as visting the Pyramids, and Luxor and Aswan, he was taken to a sugar factory, to the Sennar Dam and the Nimule National Park; he voyaged through the vast papyrus swamps of the Upper Nile, and on the way was able to study some of the most primitive peoples in the world.
$50 CAD
CARRINGTON, Richard.The Tears of Isis. The Story of a New Journey from the Mouth to the Source of the Nile.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. First edition.
Cloth, 256pp.
Fine in d/w.
An account of Carrington's journey from Rosetta, at the mouth of the Nile, to Lake Victoria; a distance of some 3,500 miles. The author was able to see many aspects of Egypt's life and landscape not normally accessible to tourists; as well as visting the Pyramids, and Luxor and Aswan, he was taken to a sugar factory, to the Sennar Dam and the Nimule National Park; he voyaged through the vast papyrus swamps of the Upper Nile, and on the way was able to study some of the most primitive peoples in the world.
$50 CAD