Blogs in October 2024

River Of The Gods 8th October 2024

‘This complex, compelling tale is told with simplicity and grace’ – The Times A story of courage and adventure, set against the backdrop of the race to exploit Africa by the colonial powers. For millennia the location of the...

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The Nile 8th October 2024

The greatest river in the world has a long and fascinating history. Professor Terje Tvedt, one of the world’s leading experts on the history of waterways, travels upstream along the river’s mouth to its sources. The result is a...

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The Black Nile 8th October 2024

A foreign correspondent traces the 4,000-mile plank-board boat journey he took with an inexperienced childhood friend along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea, a trip inspired by Alan Moorehead’s classic chronicles during which the author...

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Murder on the Nile 27th September 2024

A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery Book 19 A cruise down the Nile, a camel ride around the pyramids, lunch in the shadow of the Sphinx… And a very dead body! 1924. Lady Eleanor Swift and her butler Clifford are...

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Egypt + 100 14th August 2024

Egypt + 100 poses a question to ten contemporary Egyptian authors: what might your country look like in the year 2111 – exactly a century after the (ultimately unsuccessful) Tahrir Square revolution? Might Egypt still be in the grips...

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