Books: Images from a rich past; Vintage Egypt -Cruising the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel by Alain Blottiere, (Flammarion, pounds 35).(Features)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: October 18, 2003 | Copyright information

Byline: Richard Edmonds

Was there ever anything more luxurious than cruising up the Nile to Aswan in the 1920s?

This was the period when the Nile boats were magnificent and offered every luxury to those who sailed in them.

Flapper bars were found in Cairo and Alexandria and the cream of cosmopolitan social chic was cast into a cultural melting pot where smooth-skinned Egyptians mingled easily with European visitors and the fascination of the East seduced ...

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