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#1 The Egyptian Nile is born of the confluence of two great rivers, the Blue Nile which rises in the highlands of Ethiopia, and the White Nile which is fed by Lake Victoria. It flows northwards for a thousand miles until it reaches the sea.
#2 The Nile has always been a source of wonder for Egyptians. They have always been aware of their unique environment, and have shaped their society and world view based on it.
#3 The Nile’s water has always been more likely to kill than cure, but it does have miraculous properties. Its water and nutrients are magical under the Egyptian sun, and Egypt was able to develop a sophisticated civilization thanks to it.
#4 The Nile was not just a source of Egypt’s agricultural wealth, but also a great waterway that connected every settlement in the country.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	11 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822505940
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The Egyptian Nile is born of the confluence of two great rivers, the Blue Nile which rises in the highlands of Ethiopia, and the White Nile which is fed by Lake Victoria. It flows northwards for a thousand miles until it reaches the sea.

#2

The Nile has always been a source of wonder for Egyptians. They have always been aware of their unique environment, and have shaped their society and world view based on it.

#3

The Nile’s water has always been more likely to kill than cure, but it does have miraculous properties. Its water and nutrients are magical under the Egyptian sun, and Egypt was able to develop a sophisticated civilization thanks to it.

#4

The Nile was not just a source of Egypt’s agricultural wealth, but also a great waterway that connected every settlement in the country.

#5

The Nile is a difficult river to navigate. The slow pace of its flow makes it easy for sandbanks to accumulate, which makes navigation difficult by day and dangerous by night.

#6

Travelers on the Nile faced dangers from wildlife. Crocodiles were a major threat at the water’s edge, while hippos presented a threat to those crossing the Nile.

#7

Shipping on the Nile has been a part of Egyptian life since the earliest days of human habitation in the Valley. The Nile has traditionally offered the fastest communication within Egypt, and boats were the main engines of trade and warfare.

#8

Rowing is not practical for journeys along the river, especially upstream, so sailing is a better solution. Egyptian boats, with their non-existent keels, flat bottoms, and enormous sails, could not have sailed light because they would have capsized. They were weighted with ballast and stowed under the deck.

#9

The Nile River has been transporting blocks of granite and basalt, sandstone and limestone for the construction of pyramids and temples for nearly 3,000 years. The river also transport three other types of boats that are quintessential images of Egypt: the felucca, the dahabiya, and the state barge.

#10

The Nile has been the main means of transportation in Egypt since Herodotus traveled to Egypt and wrote about it in the fifth century BC. However, in the last fifty years, road and rail have taken over.

#11

The first Europeans to travel up the Nile River were Christian clergymen in search of concrete proof of the Old Testament stories. By the eighteenth century, European explorers had opened up the entire Nile Valley, from Cairo to the First Cataract, and brought its ancient monuments to a wider audience.

#12

The Nile was a popular destination for European tourists in the second half of the nineteenth century. The country had carved out a niche for itself as a fashionable winter resort for the wealthy.

#13

The first Victorian entrepreneur was Thomas Cook, who in 1870 revolutionized tourism to Egypt by offering a reliable fortnightly service from Cairo to Wadi Halfa and back.

#14

By the 1870s and 1880s, Cook’s was in buoyant mood and expansionary mode. The company inaugurated a connecting service between the First and Second Nile Cataracts in 1877, and opened the first hotel in Luxor in 1877.

#15

The Egypt Exploration Fund was founded by Amelia Edwards to preserve Egypt’s heritage, and her book A Thousand Miles up the Nile is a classic of travel writing.

#16

The march of modernity could not be stopped, and the time of the Nile dahabiya was coming to an end, just as surely as the age of aristocracy. By the winter of 1907–8, Sayce felt that life on the Nile had ceased to be the ideal existence it once was.

#17

The Nile is the best way to appreciate Egypt and the truth of Herodotus’s observation that the country is the gift of the Nile. Traveling no faster than the current itself, you can observe every era of Egypt’s history unfold before your eyes like the petals of a water lily.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Egyptians had no real need for rain, as they were nourished by the waters of the inundation, which welled up from below ground.

#2

The city of Aswan is the source of all Egypt’s water, and it is there that the source of the Nile is found. The Greek historian Herodotus seems to have been the first to speculate on the source of the Nile, saying that it rose from between two sharp peaks that lay between Elephantine and Syene.

#3

The First Cataract is a shock and a challenge for travelers accustomed to the Nile as a broad, tranquil and slow-flowing river. Its channel is forced into numerous branches, with torrents flowing swiftly around outcrops and piles of boulders worn smooth by millennia of abrasion.

#4

The Cataract, the first of the two rapids on the Nile, marks the entrance into Egypt. The island of Biga, which marks the beginning of Egypt, is a distribution center for Nubian imports. The island of Sehel, at the mid-point of the Cataract, is sacred to the local goddess Anuket.

#5

The Aswan Dam has allowed shipping to navigate the rapids safely, but the local rock has been used for major building projects throughout pharaonic history.

#6

The Egyptians were able to extract large blocks of granite from the bedrock, but they needed to use copper tools that were useless against the hardness of granite. They carefully dug trenches to separate the shaft of the emerging obelisk from its parent rock.

#7

The first city of Egypt, Aswan, is still dominated by a bustling souk. The market stalls of Aswan are laden with fruit and vegetables, herbs and spices.

#8

The city of Aswan, with its two strategic roles as an entrepôt and frontier, has been of particular interest to Egypt’s national authorities down the centuries.

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