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By Rosemary Mahoney
While Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo journey down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she chanced on glossy Egypt for herself. As a rower, she confronted crocodiles and testy river currents; as a feminine, she faced deeply-held ideals approximately overseas ladies whereas carefully last open to actual friendship; and, as a vacationer, she skilled occasions that ranged from the funny to the hair-raising--including an come upon that started as essentially the most scary of her existence and ended as an edifying and chastening lesson in human nature and cultural false impression. no matter if she's assembly Nubians and Egyptians, or discovering connections to Westerners who traveled up the Nile in prior times--Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert between them--Mahoney's trained interest in regards to the global by no means ceases to captivate the reader.
"Mahoney, who has been rowing for 10 years, brilliantly juxtaposes an account of her personal palm-blistering hours at the Nile....with the diary entries of 2 Victorian travelers-Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale."
--Lisa Fugard, manhattan occasions ebook Review
About the author
Rosemary Mahoney is the writer of The Early Arrival of desires, a brand new York instances impressive ebook in 1990; Whoredom in Kimmage, a countrywide booklet Critics Circle Award finalist in 1994; a probable tale: One summer time with Lillian Hellman; and The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred flooring. She has obtained a Whiting Writer's Award.
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I stared at the stars, bracing myself for the verbal pokes D O W N T H E N I L E 41 and slaps, but the man remained silent. Without asking how old I was, where I was from, or whether I was married, he said softly, “This is my boat. You can using it any times. It is always in docked across in front of Oberoi Hotel. You don’t need ask. ” The pier was illuminated only by the dim lights of restaurants on the bank above it, and it was difficult to make out the man’s features in the moonless night. His words carried trust and respect and were surprisingly devoid of the usual distancing banter, the jokes, the sexual innuendo, or mention of money.
Passengers only were allowed on the upper deck, while the lower deck was reserved for the usually flea-ridden crew. The kitchen, a shed equipped with a charcoal stove, was situated toward the front of the boat, away from the passengers’ cabins. Amelia Edwards, who traveled up the Nile in 1872 and wrote a staggeringly detailed account of her trip, including every hieroglyph she studied, every snack she ate, and the number of steps at the Temple of Horus at Edfu (she counted 224), offers in her book, A Thousand Miles Up the Nile, probably the most thorough description extant of a Nile dahabieh: A dahabeeyah [has] four sleeping cabins, two on each side.
It struck me as uniquely unlikely, like finding a book called Mother Teresa’s Personal Guide to the Mississippi, or Notes on the Volga by Grandma Moses. I thought it had to be some other Florence Nightingale. It wasn’t. I opened the book to its dead center and read: We saw the whole crew start up, fl ing down their oars, and begin to fight violently . . howling and screaming and kicking, the boat of course drifting down upon the rocks meantime . . Out rushed Paolo with an ebony club, — which I had bought from the Berber savages coming up the cataract .