ASPECTS OF EGYPT Some Travels in the United Arab Republic ETHEL MANNIN HUTCHINSON & CO. 1964 1st edition. 21 x 14 cm. 264 pp + b/w photo plates. HB/DJ This is a book primarily about modern Egypt—Nasser's Egypt, the United Arab Republic. It is also a book about the doomed villages of Egyptian Nubia, to which very few Westerners have gone, let alone stayed in as did the author, since there are no roads to them and they perch on ridges of bare rock with the desert behind and the Nile in front, and, as may be imagined, are totally without amenities, many not even possessing well water— which means, as the author puts it, 'drinking the Nile—neat'. She saw also the 'new Nubia' of Kom Ombo, near Aswan, to which some 500,000 Nubian villagers are being moved and resettled in new villages, in lands reclaimed from the desert. Back in Cairo, as the guest of the government, Miss Mannin was received by President Nasser at his unpretentious house and found herself chatting to him 'as to an old friend'. She was taken wherever she asked to be taken—to Alexandria, Port Said, Suez, Fayum, the 'lovely oasis'—and shown whatever she asked to be shown. And in between she wandered about alone all over Cairo, from end to end, getting the 'feeling' of the great city beside the Nile. She revisited Gaza, and knew again 'the old pain and anger over the Palestine tragedy'. It is an intensely personal book, but whether Miss Mannin is writing of meeting Nasser, of Agrarian Reform, Arab Nationalism and Socialism—all of which she found 'exciting'—of a gay luncheon at the vineyards near Alexandria, or of the mud villages, of an area that can never be visited again, the lost Atlantis of the Nubian valley, the account is always a lively one—of the many aspects of the fascinating country which has been called the 'gift of the Nile'. CONTENTS MEETING THE RAIS: President Nasser ARAB SOCIALISM AND NATIONALISM THE HIGH DAM: 'Greater than the Pyramids' THE NUBIAN VILLAGES ASYUT, GATEWAY TO UPPER EGYPT AT THE KHARGA OASIS SOME ASPECTS OF AGRARIAN REFORM ALEXANDRIA THE CANAL ZONE ASPECTS OF CAIRO SAQQARA: The Step Pyramid TOURISM GAZA REVISITED A NATION ON THE MOVE Appendix Bibliography Index

ASPECTS OF EGYPT
Some Travels in the United Arab Republic

ETHEL MANNIN

HUTCHINSON & CO.
1964

First edition.
This is a book primarily about modern Egypt—Nasser's Egypt, the United Arab Republic. It is also a book about the doomed villages of Egyptian Nubia, to which very few Westerners have gone, let alone stayed in as did the author, since there are no roads to them and they perch on ridges of bare rock with the desert behind and the Nile in front, and, as may be imagined, are totally without amenities, many not even possessing well water— which means, as the author puts it, 'drinking the Nile—neat'. She saw also the 'new Nubia' of Kom Ombo, near Aswan, to which some 500,000 Nubian villagers are being moved and resettled in new villages, in lands reclaimed from the desert.

Back in Cairo, as the guest of the government, Miss Mannin was received by President Nasser at his unpretentious house and found herself chatting to him 'as to an old friend'. She was taken wherever she asked to be taken—to Alexandria, Port Said, Suez, Fayum, the 'lovely oasis'—and shown whatever she asked to be shown. And in between she wandered about alone all over Cairo, from end to end, getting the 'feeling' of the great city beside the Nile. She revisited Gaza, and knew again 'the old pain and anger over the Palestine tragedy'.

It is an intensely personal book, but whether Miss Mannin is writing of meeting Nasser, of Agrarian Reform, Arab Nationalism and Socialism—all of which she found 'exciting'—of a gay luncheon at the vineyards near Alexandria, or of the mud villages, of an area that can never be visited again, the lost Atlantis of the Nubian valley, the account is always a lively one—of the many aspects of the fascinating country which has been called the 'gift of the Nile'.

CONTENTS
MEETING THE RAIS: President Nasser
ARAB SOCIALISM AND NATIONALISM
THE HIGH DAM: 'Greater than the Pyramids'
THE NUBIAN VILLAGES
ASYUT, GATEWAY TO UPPER EGYPT
AT THE KHARGA OASIS
SOME ASPECTS OF AGRARIAN REFORM
ALEXANDRIA
THE CANAL ZONE
ASPECTS OF CAIRO
SAQQARA: The Step Pyramid

TOURISM
GAZA REVISITED
A NATION ON THE MOVE
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

21 x 14 cm. 264 pp + b/w photo plates.

Very good + condition. Dust jacket slightly faded on the spine and edge worn but otherwise clean and tidy.





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