The doomed expeditions of Edwardian aristocrats in Egypt’s Nile

The doomed Nile expeditions of Edwardian aristocrats: Orientalists and amateur Egyptologists among Edwardian aristocrats drawn to Egypt in the turn of the 20th century did not exactly find the glamorous voyage they romanticized, Robert Leigh-Pemberton writes for The Telegraph. Reviewing a book titled Aristocrats and Archaeologists — based on the accounts of the Duke of Devonshire on his recreational cruise down the Nile in the winter of 1907 — Leigh-Pemberton traces how the reality of a seemingly glamorous trip was rather less appealing, ending with the illness and death. This certainly would not be a glowing tourism promotional campaign if you had lived in the early 1900s and seems to lend credence to Sherine’s joke about drinking from the waters of the Nile.