Winter on the Nile: Florence Nightingale, Gustave Flaubert and the Temptations of Egypt

by Anthony Sattin

Book Overview

In the winter of 1849, Florence Nightingale was an unknown 29-year-old - beautiful, well-born and deeply unhappy. After clashing with her parents over her refusal to marry, she had been offered a lifeline by family friends who suggested a trip to Egypt, a country which she had always longed to visit.

By an extraordinary coincidence, taking the same boat from Alexandria was an unpublished French writer, Gustave Flaubert. Like Nightingale,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0099534088
• ISBN13: 9780099534082
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Windmill
• Length: 291 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.8"