Tunis Market, Cairo (via A Celebration of Women Writers ) Through the winter of 1873-1874, Amelia Edwards and her companion, Lucy Renshawe, were prompted to take refuge in Egypt to escape the monotony of rainy weather! Beginning in Cairo, they travelled up the Nile to Abu Simbel, while Edwards catalogued their journey for her travelogue, A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). In this extract from the first chapter of A Thousand Miles up the Nile, we see through Edwards' eyes the hustle and bustle of the place: her descriptions of European tourists of the time and the colourful, labyrinthine bazaars. Reading time: 15 minutes A Thousand Miles up the Nile From Chapter 1: Cairo and The Great Pyramid IT is the traveller's lot to dine at many table-d'hôtes in the course of many wanderings ; but it seldom befalls him to make one of a more miscellaneous gathering than that which overfills the great dining-room at Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo during the beginning an...