The Nile Insight Guide

The Nile Insight Guide
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\nEgypt only exists because of the Nile. Rising deep in the heart of Africa from long-disputed sources, the White and Blue Niles travel 3,500 miles before combining for the last 2,000 miles to the Mediterranean, bringing life to what would otherwise be one of the most terrible places on earth. It was along this river that the world's most advanced culture blossomed and died, leaving a legacy of now-legendary pyramids, temples and tombs.
\nUp this river sailed Cleopatra, first with Caesar and then with Antony: upriver came Saladin and the Mamluks, Napoleon Bonaparte. General Gordon, Lord Kitchener, and World War II spies. There are more stories to the Nile than meet the eye-or the explanations of shipboard guides.
\nThe expert writers and photographers behind Insight Guide: The Nile have assembled a lavishly illustrated and compellingly written companion which investigates the sites, sounds and smells of the river, narrates the most fabulous of its stories and thereby completes the picture of a nation-making waterway.