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A hypnotic journey in the company of one of the world's most acclaimed Egyptologists over the fabled river telling how the Nile continually brought life to a historical civilization now deceased and exactly how it sustained its successors, now in tumult. Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson leads us through space approximately time: From the river's mystical resources (the Blue Nile which rises in Ethiopia, and the White Nile coursing from majestic Lake Victoria); to Thebes, using its Valley of the Kings, Valley of the Queens, and Luxor Temple; the fertile Delta; Giza, home of the Great Pyramid, the sole surviving Marvel of the Ancient World; and lastly, to the pulsating capital city of Cairo, where in fact the Arab Spring and coil erupted on the bridges over the Nile. Along the way, he introduces us to mystical and fabled heroes - the gods, godlike pharaohs, emperors and empresses, who joined up with their destiny to the Nile and gained immortality; the adventurers, archaeologists, and historians who have all dropped under its spell. With matchless erudition and storytelling skill, via a lens equal to both panoramas and close-ups, Wilkinson brings millennia of record into view.
