Tag: Nile River

Book Review: ‘River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile’

Years ago, I visited Egypt. The pyramids are, of course, awesome in their ancient majesty and mystery. The Nile River, winding its way through the arid desert lands, is the longest in the world. Like the pyramids, its history spans millennia. Its gift for centuries has been the fertile floodplain created by the river. The…


The View From a Riverboat Window on the Nile River

As I sat on the sun deck outside my riverboat cabin overlooking the surrounding scene, many of the most fabled attractions of Egypt came into view. The towering Pyramids of Giza were guarded by the world-famous Sphinx, whose face, believed to portray that of a pharaoh, sits on the body of a lion. I spotted…