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Women Travelers in Egypt - From the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century by Deborah Manley (Editor)
Category: History | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Until late in the nineteenth century, few guide books acknowledged the presence of women as travelers - although women had been traveling around the world for centuries. Women's accounts of their journeys, distinct from those of male travelers, began to appear more frequently in the early nineteenth cen ...Show more
Women Travelers on the Nile: An Anthology by Deborah Manley (Editor)
Category: Travel Literature | Series: American University in Cairo Press Ser.
Women travelers in Egypt in the nineteenth century saw aspects of the country unseen by their male counterparts, as they spent time both in the harems of Cairo and with the women they met along the Nile. Some of them, like Sarah Belzoni and Sophia Poole, spoke Arabic. Others wrote engagingly of their ex ...Show more
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