About this title: When 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 ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780316019019ISBN:0316019011
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 273 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780316107457ISBN:031610745X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2008-09-15
ISBN-13:9780316019019ISBN:0316019011
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Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2008-09-15
ISBN-13:9780316019019ISBN:0316019011
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
ISBN-13:9780316107457ISBN:031610745X
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Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, New York
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780316107457ISBN:031610745X
Description: Very Good in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 273 pp., map, biblio.; 22 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tail corners lightly bumped. Stated "First Edition: July 2007. " Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780316019019ISBN:0316019011
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Binding: book Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780316107457ISBN:031610745X
Description: Brand New. Brand new. Never read or owned. May have a remainder mark. 273 pages. 8.50 x 5.80 x 1.00 in. 15.2 oz. Documents the author's danger-ridden voyage by seven-foot skiff down the Egyptian Nile, an endeavor that is challenged by civil unrest, local disapproval about women traveling alone, wild animals, harsh climate, and the unlikely assistance of a kind Muslim sailor. In this evocative memoir, Rosemary Mahoney recounts her experiences of riding down 120 miles of the Nile River in a ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Date Published: 2008-09-15
ISBN-13:9780316019019ISBN:0316019011
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780316107457ISBN:031610745X
Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Travel, Memoir. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Embracing her curiosity about the Nile, the author travels, alone, down the river in a small boat. This is her journey! A fascinating read. This book is in near fine condition. The dust jacket is in very good condition, is not price clipped, and is in new clear protective covering. read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown & Co, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780316107457ISBN:031610745X
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall. Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided her with both a seven-foot skiff and a window into the culturally and materially impoverished lives of rural Egyptians. Egyptian women don't row on the ... read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780316107457ISBN:031610745X
Description: New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 273 p. Audience: General/trade. First edition/First Printing! 8vo Hardcover with DJ. Book: AS NEW, SIGNED and inscribed by AUTHOR, binding tight, corners/spine square and pointed, text, boards, and DJ are pristine, appears not to have been read and barely opened. As Always...Delivered to your home in a bright new Brodart wrapper, in bubble wrap, and shipped in a box. Package will be insured with USPS ... read more
"My book club has chosen one too many feminist travel autobiographies and this one isn't even a good one within that genre. As I skimmed through the LONG historical passages and endless musings on how the author could acquire a boat of her own to row down the river, I could never quite answer the question, "Why do I care?" Honestly, a single woman rowing a boat alone down the Egyptian Nile just seems like a really bad idea. If you want to read about a woman's journey of self-discovery, by all means read Eat, Pray, Love and not this book."
"Read in preparation of our Feb. 2010 trip since we'll be going down the Nile on a 7 day cruise as part of our experience. The author rowed her way for 3 days alone and kind of disguised since a woman wouldn't be allowed to do such a thing. She writes much about F. Nightingale and auuthor Flaubeau's trip and journals that apparently she read in prep for her trip. I enjoyed the descriptions of the scenery we'll soon see the most."
"This book was intriguing, partly because it was not so much what I was expecting--a sort of travelogue--as a picture of the plight of women and the hypersexualizing of men in a sexually repressed society. The reader is as frustrated as the writer by the obstacles to going "Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff, " which turns out to be a nearly impossible project for a woman. Mahoney is very intellectual and a lot of the enjoyment, for me, was the interspersed quotes from Flaubert's and Nightingale's trips down the Nile. I found myself identifying with each of the three writers in their need for solitude, for escape, space and time to struggle with an unquiet mind. Some of my favorite passages: "I was alone finally...I wanted to sing for happiness--a rare, raw, immediate kind of happiness that was directly related to my physical situation, to my surroundings, to independence and to solitude. The happiness I felt that morning had nothing to do with the future or the past, with abstractions or with my relationships with other people. It was the happiness of entering into something new, of taking the moments simply for what they were, of motion, of freedom, and of free will...I felt coordinated and strong, and the world seemed huge and vibrant. It was a relief to be alone...I felt optimistic. And I relaxed enough that my mind could wander. That was always the best part of rowing--the repetition, the simplicity of the physical task, the slowly and constantly shifting surroundings that inspired free thought. My happiness was a physical lightness, of weightlessness, like drifting on air." (p. 218) I have so experienced that when engaged in physical tasks--every morning while driving, in fact. "Both {Flaubert and Nightingale} were brilliant, iconoclastic, sensitive and impatient with hypocrisy and convention. Neither had any desire to fit the tediously cliched expectations that society had slated for them. Both were charming conversationalists, but prized solitude and generally considered most other people a tiresome distraction. Both were traveling in Egypt during a period of considerable self-doubt; both agonized over how they would use their talents and answer their natural impulses--Flaubert's literary, Nightingale's spiritual and medical." (p. 243) Next, there is a fascinating account of Nightingale's "daydreaming," which tortured her and seems to have been a symptom of a kind of mental illness--or artistic sensibility (what is the difference?). The fascinating thing is that both Flaubert and NIghtingale experienced a kind of cure, a refocused, channeled creativity,a s the result of their trips, as though the long trip down the NIle actually served to clear their minds at last."
"I really enjoyed reading about Mahoney's experience rowing down the Nile. Her writing made me feel as if I was on the journey with her...without the seasickness.
The excessive snippets from Nightingale and Flaubert's Nile journeys were interesting but by the end of the book I found myself skimming those portions as they were deflecting from my enjoyment of Mahoney's travels.
Overall, I found the book well written and the story intriguing."
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