An illustrated anthology of travellers to the Nile, celebrating one of the world's greatest rivers, this text synthesizes written accounts by travellers from many different eras. Described by the author as literary archaeology, the book consists of records and comments by travellers, arranged to follow the Nile from Alexandra to Wadi Haifa, and bringing together the impressions of the river by more than 100 like-minded travellers. It includes extracts from writers as diverse as Herodotus, Pliny, Mark Twain, Chateaubriand, William Golding, Lawrence Durrell, Jan Morris, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh and Winston Churchill.