Notes For The Nile
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Amen RA
ancient Egyptian hymns
archaeological fieldwork
Author_Hardwicke D. Rawnsley
beni
Brave Heart
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Dead Man
dynasties
dynasty
Egyptology research
eighteenth
Eighteenth Dynasty
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Eternal Dwelling Places
Gebel Silsilis
gizeh
Gizeh Museum
Grand Father
Great Pharaoh
Green Corn
hasan
high Victorian Egypt exploration
Libyan Hill
Men Plough
museum
nineteenth
Nineteenth Dynasty
Palm Basket
Place De La Concorde
plain
Prisse papyrus wisdom
Rameses II
Rameses III
royal mummy studies
Seti's Son
Shepherd Kings
Step Pyramid
theban
Theban Plain
Tiny Tent
Twentieth Dynasty
Victorian travel literature
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780710309839
- Weight: 790g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 13 Oct 2006
- Publisher: Kegan Paul
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 2006. This delightful book written in 1892 by a founder of the National Trust is regarded as a classic of high Victorian travel writing. After three journeys to the East, Rawnsley decided that existing guide-books were not sufficiently explicit and set out to write this witty and informative account that reflects a highly likeable character to whom it is impossible not to warm. Beginning with observations such as ‘everything can be got in Cairo except good English tea’ and ‘never expect your guide to know anything about Egyptian history or the monuments up the Nile’, Rawnsley sets off to show us the best of Egypt during a golden age of exploration and touring, he visits the two egyptologists to whom he dedicates this book, joining Flinders Petrie at the Medum pyramid to observe the excavations, and talking to Emile Brugsch about the royal mummies which had been brought from their tombs to the Cairo Museum just a few years previously. In the ruins of Thebes and Luxor he is struck by what he calls ‘the silence of the dead’ which he contrasts with the obvious love of the ancient Egyptians for music, as shown in their art and in the many hymns preserved in papyri. Although the music itself has been lost, it seemed a pity to Rawnsley that the hymns, dirges, poems and wise sayings should remain unknown to the general reader because of their unmusical form. He presents a number of them here, translated and rendered into metre, a unique contribution that greatly enhances the enjoyment of Egypt at first hand or at a distance. The work concludes with what Rawnsley considers to be its most important part – the timeless wisdom embodied in the sayings of Ptah-hotep taken from the Prisse papyrus.
Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley (1851-1920) was educated at Balliol College, Oxford. He was a Canon of the Church of England, a published poet and a founder of the National Trust. He was instrumental in preserving the natural beauties of the Lake District.
