Drifting Down the NIle
October 14th 2007 The thought of sailing down the Nile on a felucca has always evoked romantic images of the past for me. Their broad triangular sails have been part of the Nile landscape since the time of the pharaohs. For thousands of years feluccas were the main mode of transportation along the Nile. Their importance waned only after the British pushed the steel rails south into the desert during the nineteen
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