Down The Nile by Rosemary Mahoney - 9780316019019

Down The NileAlone in a Fisherman's Skiff\nAuthor(s): Rosemary Mahoney\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Little, Brown & Company, United States\nImprint: Little, Brown & Company\nISBN-13: 9780316019019, 978-0316019019\nSynopsis\nWhen Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo trip down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she discovered modern Egypt for herself. As a rower, she faced crocodiles and testy river currents; as a female, she confronted deeply-held beliefs about foreign women while cautiously remaining open to genuine friendship; and, as a traveller, she experienced events that ranged from the humorous to the hair-raising - including an encounter that began as one of the most frightening of her life and ended as an edifying and chastening lesson in human nature and cultural misunderstanding. \nWhether she's meeting Nubians and Egyptians, or finding connections to Westerners who travelled up the Nile in earlier times - Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert among them - Ma.