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  • Location: Aswan

The Twelve Rooms of the Nile

1849: Gustave Flaubert and Florence Nightingale each toured Egypt at exactly the same time back in 1849 and followed a nearly identical itinerary. They never…

  • Location: Egypt, London

Shadows on the Nile

1930s: A Egyptian trail in the search for a girl’s missing brother

  • Location: Alexandria, Cairo, Istanbul

Jasmine Nights

WW2: An evocative cover takes you right to the locations before even opening the first page

  • Location: Egypt, Cairo

The Sacred River

1800s: A romantic, vivid novel about three women who leave Victorian London for Egypt—a tale of female empowerment, self-discovery, love, and the absolution that comes…

  • Location: Egypt, The Nile, Cairo

Death on the Nile (Poirot)

1930s: It’s arguably the most exotic Agatha Christie book ever, not to mention one of the best and so evocative you get sand in your…

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A Granite Silence

1934: A notorious true crime case

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