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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Wilkinson, Toby, 1969- author.     Subjects     Wilkinson, Toby. 1969. -- Travel -- Nile River.     Nile River Valley -- Description and travel.     Nile River Valley -- History.     Egypt -- Civilization.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wilkinson, Toby, 1969- author.       by title:      The Nile : a journey...         MARC Display

The Nile : a journey downriver through Egypt's past and present / Toby Wilkinson. by Wilkinson, Toby, 1969- author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Subjects Wilkinson, Toby. 1969. -- Travel -- Nile River.   Nile River Valley -- Description and travel.   Nile River Valley -- History.   Egypt -- Civilization. ISBN:  9780385351553 (hardcover) : 0385351550 (hardcover) Description:  xv, 292 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm Edition:  First American edition. Contents:  The Nile : Egypt's eternal river -- Aswan : source of the Nile -- The deep south : where Egypt began -- Luxor : city of wonders -- Western Thebes : realm of the dead -- Qift and Qena : the centre and the provinces -- Abydos : place of mysteries -- Middle Egypt : cradle of religion -- The Fayum : a lake in the desert -- Cairo : Egypt's capital. Requests:  0 Summary:  It was Herodotus who first called Egypt "the gift of the river." Now renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us along the Nile to reveal how it continues to hold the key to understanding the earliest of the great ancient civilizations as well as the volatile and rapidly modernizing country that is Egypt today. Wilkinson's narrative takes us from the river's mystical sources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, with its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Wonder of the Ancient World; and finally, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where the Arab Spring erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mysterious and fabled characters--the gods and pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined their fate to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all fallen under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, through both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of history into view.--From publisher description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aiea Public Library Adult Nonfiction 962 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 962 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 962 Wilkinson Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 962 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList McCully-Moiliili Public Library Adult Nonfiction 962 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 962 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Waianae Public Library Adult Nonfiction 962 Wi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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