Grand Hotels of Egypt: In the Golden Age of Travel Old Cairo and statues

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she brings a part of the world that is thousands of miles away right to your door

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Marianne Barrucand

Grand Hotels of Egypt: In the Golden Age of Travel Old Cairo and statuesAndrew Humphreys From the earliest resthouses serving travelers on the Overland Route between Britain and Bombay to the grand Edwardian palaces on the Nile that made Egypt the exotic alternative to wintering on the Riviera, the hotels of Alexandria, Cairo, Luxor, and Aswan were always about far more than just bed and board. As bridgeheads for African exploration, neutral territories for conducting diplomacy, headquarters for armies, providers of home