This book is a fascinating account of a British woman's journey to Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine in the mid-19th century. Isabella Romer was a pioneering traveler who explored many of the great sites of antiquity and produced several influential books on history and culture. In this book, she provides a vivid description of the landscapes, monuments, and people she encountered, as well as her thoughts on the political and social issues of her time. This is an engaging and informative read for anyone interested in the history and culture of the Middle East. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Excerpt from A Pilgrimage to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine, in 1845-6, Vol. 1 of 2 Since the facilities of steam-navigation have brought the Nile within the scope of everybody's possibility, and rendered Constantinople an easier undertaking than the Giants' Causeway formerly was, so much has been published upon the East, that the subject has been completely exhausted by minds of every calibre, and books of Oriental travel have become a mere drug. It therefore looks like a work of supererogation, - a squeezing of the squeezed lemon, - to endeavour to extract a new idea from so worn-out a theme, or attempt to add a word to that which has already been so often and so well said. But, such is the incorri gibility of human nature, of female human nature, above all, - that, with the pages of King lake and Warburton staring one in the face. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Romer describes her travels to popular tourist destinations in Egypt, Nubia, and Palestine. She organizes her trip by theme rather than in diary style, and comments on the people she meets as well as the sites she visits.