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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2011
Print publication year:
2010
First published in:
1865
Online ISBN:
9780511795282
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511795282
Subjects:
Middle East Studies, Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Middle East History
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor
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Book description

Lucie Duff Gordon (1821–1869) was a translator and travel writer. Forced to leave England in 1851 due to tuberculosis, she went first to South Africa and then to Egypt. Her letters home were published, with considerable success. She writes with great feeling about the ordinary life of the Egyptians: her interest in and sympathy with them is clear, and her great affection for them led to criticism of the derogatory way in which many western visitors regarded them. But she was also highly critical of the effects of western influence on them, and her comments about the Suez Canal project and new railroads being achieved by forced labour and high taxes were not well received: some of her political opinions were removed from subsequent editions. This volume, first published in 1865, was edited by her mother, also a writer, and covers the years 1862–1865, including her voyage out.

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