On the Nile : in the golden age of travel /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Humphreys, Andrew, 1965- (Author)
Other Authors:	Ombler, Gary
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2015.
Subjects:	Nile River Valley > Description and travel > 19th century. Nile River Valley > Description and travel > 20th century. Egypt > Description and travel. Steamboats > Egypt. Thomas Cook (Firm)

Table of Contents:

Miss Riggs goes abroad : Thomas Cook's first guided tour to Egypt and up the Nile
Four months in a Dahabiya : early visitors under sail on the Nile
A monopoly on the Nile : Thomas Cook and son become masters of the river
Cook goes to war : Cook & Son's role in the British-Egyptian campaigns in Sudan
Floating palaces : Cook & Son's new fleet of first-class Nile river steamers
Life aboard : the attractions and diversions of cruising the Nile under steam
Egypt, Arabia, and Sudan : competition on the Nile and three new Cook & Son steamers
Death on the Nile : a dead pharaoh, multiple murders, and the threat of the railways
The end of the Cook & Son era and the emergence of the modern Nile cruise business
The Nile fleets : An A-Z of steamers used on the Nile passenger services from the 1880s until the Second World War.