More Usefully Employed: Amelia B Edwards, Writer, Traveller and Campaigner for Ancient Egypt (Occasional Papers)
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Author(s)Brenda Moon
PublisherEgypt Exploration Society
ISBN / ASIN0856981699
ISBN-139780856981692
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
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This is a detailed biography, of Miss Amelia B Edwards; founder of the Egypt Exploration Fund, as it was originally known. Miss Edwards (1831-1892) was a well-known novelist who became interested in preserving Egypt's ancient monuments while on a cruise in 1873-4, the subject of her best-selling travel book A Thousand Miles Up The Nile .