Katherine Frank

Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt

Hamish Hamilton, London, 1994 first edition, ISBN: 024113014x

Description and condition:

Black boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, 398 pp., index, bibliography, b/w illustrations.

Very good with nice clean pages throughout but has remainder mark to bottom edge. In good dustcover.

Contents:

'In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly said farewell to her husband and children and sailed to Egypt. 126 years later Katherine Frank boarded a flight for Cairo in order to find her.' Lucie boarded to Egypt in order to recover from TB and fell in love with the country and the people, she stayed there until her death, writing letters from Egypt.