Caution
Who is that woman? Why - it's Beverly Macklin of course - the famous travel writer that nobody had ever heard of. Or is it? Before we visited Egypt, I thought it would be helpful to purchase a guide book that dealt specifically with the stretch of The Nile between Luxor and Aswan. On Amazon Books, I thought I had struck lucky when I located "Nile River Cruise Travel Guide 2026" by Beverly Macklin. It was quite expensive for a thin volume - costing me £13 or $17US but I thought - what the hell - we'll only be in Egypt once and if the book helpfully informs our visit then it will be money well-spent. And so the book arrived at our house. I read the 141 pages in two days and it was quite a pleasant publication to read. The style, like the typeface was fluent and easy. However it kept repeating itself and what is more it only gave me a broad brushstroke sense of what our Nile cruise might be like. There were no nitty gritty details about accessing ancient sites su...