A PASSAGE TO EGYPT: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon.
by [Gordon, Lucie Duff, 1821-1869] Frank, Katherine
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- ISBN 10
- 0395546885
- ISBN 13
- 9780395546888
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About This Item
Boston:: Houghton Mifflin,, 1994.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First printing. "In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly said farewell to her husband and children and sailed to Egypt." Gordon - author of "Letters From Egypt," a unique testimony to the country which became her spiritual home - spent seven years there, until her death from tuberculosis. This recounts her dramatic transition as she immersed herself in the Egyptian way of life, shrugging off Victorian era restrictions and avoiding the English community there, Family tree, map, photographs, notes, bibliography, index. xi, 399 pp.
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- Title
- A PASSAGE TO EGYPT: The Life of Lucie Duff Gordon.
- Author
- [Gordon, Lucie Duff, 1821-1869] Frank, Katherine
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0395546885
- ISBN 13
- 9780395546888
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1994.
- Keywords
- women, travel, egypt,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary biographies;
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