Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles, Volume I

Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles, Volume I
By George Melly

First published in 1851, George Melly's vivid travel narrative follows an English family's journey from the Mediterranean into Egypt and onward along the Nile toward Khartoum.

Volume I carries the party through Alexandria, Cairo, Upper Egypt, Nubia, and the cataracts, combining close observation with the immediacy of a nineteenth-century traveller's journal. This carefully prepared EPUB edition includes linked contents, the original illustrations, and the original route map.

Format: EPUB
Language: English
Edition: Nile Book Store digital edition

A public-domain work, newly prepared for modern reading by Nile Book Store.

Excerpt

After a pleasant journey through Lombardy, and a very agreeable stay at the city of gondolas and palaces, we arrived at Trieste on the 25th of September, 1850, on our way to Egypt. Our party consisted of my father and mother, my brother and sister, and myself.

We hoped, before returning, to be able to penetrate far into the depths of Nubia; departing from the beaten track of Nile travellers, to reach the 14th degree of north latitude, and add our names to those of the few English who have gazed on the junction of the White and Blue Niles.