The Friends of the Egypt Centre present A Thousand Miles up the Nile: Amelia Edwards’ voyage of discovery.

A The Egypt Centre Event

Speaker

Dr Val Billingham

Speaker's Biography

Trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society

From: 13 Sep 2017, 7 p.m.
To: 13 Sep 2017, 8 p.m.
Location: Fulton House 2, Fulton House

In the winter of 1873-74, Amelia Edwards travelled up the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel, a journey described in her 1876 bestseller, “A Thousand Miles up the Nile”. In this lecture, Val Billingham will draw on Amelia’s own words and on images from the Egypt Exploration Society archive to tell the story of that seminal voyage.


Contact: Wendy Goodridge (Email: w.r.goodridge@swansea.ac.uk) - Telephone: 01792295960

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