Archives for July 2005

Prisse d'Avennes
Written by Mary Norton He was, in many ways, a paradox. An artist of consummate skill, he was also a writer, scientist, scholar, engineer and linguist, a genius who spent much of his life among the illiterate. French to […]
3440 words, written July 28 2005, in the late morning and filed in The Travellers

Of the Country of Egypt
of the bird phoenix of Arabia; of the city of Cairo; of the cunning to know balm and to prove it; and of the garners of Joseph Mandeville, Jehan De (“Sir John Mandeville”), the name claimed by the compiler of […]
3003 words, written July 12 2005, in the morning and filed in The Travellers Journals

The Citadel and the Mamelukes
It was late in the afternoon when we slowly climbed the Mokattam to the citadel; we were weary, and so were the horses. Cairo was done great justice pictorially when Saladin located the citadel and gave people a place of […]
1837 words, written July 11 2005, in the early morning and filed in The Travellers Journals

With Mr. Bankes in his voyage upon the Nile into Nubia (3)
Read the first part of this story Read the second part of this story Some hope was entertained that the Hanoverians might have abandoned their project, since nothing had been heard of them during all the day, and they did […]
5529 words, written July 4 2005, in the early afternoon and filed in The Travellers Journals

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