This is an illustrated celebration of the classic era of cruising on the Nile. Early travelers took a dahabiya, an elegant triangular-sailed houseboat, and leisurely meandered from site to site, for three months or more. Then from the late nineteenth century, Thomas Cook of Leicester, England, revolutionized the journey with a fleet of specially built paddle steamers. For the next sixty years these 'floating palaces,' with their private cabins, and...

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