Wanderings in the Land of Ham (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. No. 1. A Good Library is a great source of comfort on board a Nile boat, and amply repays the traveller for any trouble or expense he may incur by an extra package. Among the books which I venture to recommend from experience to those who are about to make the voyage, I would particularly mention Murray's Handbook for Egypt; Miss Martineau's Eastern Life; Lane's Modern Egyptians; The Crescent and the Cross; Eothen; Lord Lindsay's Letters from Egypt; Washington Irving's Life of Mahomet; Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians; Dr. Gliddon'sAncient Egypt; Lepsius' Egypt (Bohn); Osburn's Monumental History of Egypt; and Osburn's Israel in Egypt. A good map of the country is indispensable; I believe Colonel Leake's is the best. The purchase of Bartlett's Nile Boat ought perhaps to be deferred till the traveller's return to England, when he will gladly refresh his memory and recall the Land of Egypt to his recollection by means of the beautiful engravings of this lamented and accomplished artist. In mentioning these books, I of course do not mean the traveller's library to consist solely of works on Egypt; on the contrary there ought to be a variety of volumes, suited to the taste of the reader, among which, in my opinion, amusing light reading will be found very acceptable. To the learned I would venture to suggest Herodotus as an endless source of amusement; I often regretted my inability to read the works of the Father of History. Beading is more the order of the day for ladies than working, for the flies effectually prevent one doing anything that requires the use of both hands; one being always required to wield the fly-flap. As I mentioned at the beginning of this volume, we started from Paris, and were therefore unable to procure many of the books we wa...