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050 00 $aDT116$b.M35 2007
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100 1 $aMahoney, Rosemary.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90626157
245 10 $aDown the Nile :$balone in a fisherman's skiff /$cRosemary Mahoney.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown, and Co.,$c2007.
300 $a273 pages :$bmap ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [271]-273).
520 1 $a"Two hundred years after Napoleon invaded Egypt - opening the Nile Valley to eager scholars and travelers for the first time since the Arab conquest of AD 642 - Rosemary Mahoney embraced her own curiosity about the Nile. A rower and self-declared loner, she was determined to take a solo trip down the river in a small boat, even though civil unrest and local traditions would conspire against her along the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of Amr, a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff for the first leg of her journey and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians - especially those of women, like his lonely and endearing sister, Hoda." "Egyptian women simply don't row on the Nile, and tourists - the basis of Egypt's economy - aren't allowed to for safety's sake. So once she had secured a boat and freed herself of companions, Mahoney left port in the dark of night; by day, she wrapped her head in a white cotton shirt and took on the intense Egyptian glare without sunglasses to escape detection. She endured blistering heat, a threatening Jimi Hendrix look-alike, and a terror of crocodiles while sleeping alone in her boat - all for the exhilaration of ancient ruins appearing suddenly on the horizon and the shock of a traveler's happiness that she describes as "a physical feeling of lightness, of weightlessness, like drifting on air." Whether she's confronting deeply held beliefs about non-Muslim women, finding connections to past chroniclers of the Nile, painting a vivid picture of a "creamy coffee-colored" stretch of the river, or coming to the dramatic realization that fear can engender unwarranted violence, Mahoney's informed curiosity about the world, her prose, and her wit never fail to captivate."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aNile River$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aEgypt$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041273
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip073/2006034168.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0653/2006034168-d.html
852 00 $bmil$hDT116$i.M35 2007