12.27.2004
Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850
by Florence Nightingale, 208 pgs, hardcover
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Overall Grade: C
I think I dug this up at my grandma's house, so it might be pretty obscure & its not really worth finding anyway. But here's the skinny, this is a collection of letters Florence wrote to her family during a trip she took down the Nile River with some family friends. Sort of interesting is the view she gives on how traveling the Nile & the Egyptian ruins used to be. People running around all over, places not excavated or cleared out of sand. Some of the places she went aren't even around anymore.
But she was too aristocratic for my tastes, and though many would probably argue against she also has a nasty disdain from Catholicism which shows up from time to time and I get really annoyed when stuff like that comes up in what I'm reading.
Amazon site
Overall Grade: C
I think I dug this up at my grandma's house, so it might be pretty obscure & its not really worth finding anyway. But here's the skinny, this is a collection of letters Florence wrote to her family during a trip she took down the Nile River with some family friends. Sort of interesting is the view she gives on how traveling the Nile & the Egyptian ruins used to be. People running around all over, places not excavated or cleared out of sand. Some of the places she went aren't even around anymore.
But she was too aristocratic for my tastes, and though many would probably argue against she also has a nasty disdain from Catholicism which shows up from time to time and I get really annoyed when stuff like that comes up in what I'm reading.
Labels: genre: historical, genre: non-fiction, media: book
