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When Rosemary Mahoney, in 1998, took a solo journey down the Nile in a seven-foot rowboat, she found contemporary Egypt for himself. As a rower, she encountered crocodiles and testy water currents; like a feminine, she challenged sincerely-held values about international ladies while warily outstanding available to real companionship; and, like a tourist, she experienced activities that ranged from the funny to the hair-raising--including an experience that started as you of the very scary of her existence and finished being an edifying and chastening lesson in human character and social misconception. Whether she's assembly Nubians and Egyptians, or discovering contacts to Westerners who sailed up the Nile in the earlier days--Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert included in this--Mahoney's knowledgeable fascination with the planet never ceases to entertain the audience. "A pilgrimage about pilgrims and holy sites that's not just informative but additionally really amusing." -Paul Theroux (about The Novel Pilgrim) "Mahoney is really an incredibly efficient catalytic agent: she would go to Ireland and simply makes the nation occur around her." -Jonathan Raban (on Whoredom in Kimmage)"Mahoney, who hasbeen rowing for 10-year, brilliantly juxtaposes a merchant account of her very own hand-extreme hrs on the Nile,.with the journal records of two Victorian vacationers-Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale." --Lisa Fugard, Ny Times Book Review