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Young Egypt. Last November, Dr. Walter Bryan Emery, British archeologist in the service of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities, climbed a desert bluff at Sakkara within sight of the pyramids of Giza. Below lay the fertile checkerboard fields of the flat Nile valley. A few miles away peasants grazed their goats among the jumbled ruins of Memphis, first capital of Egypt...
...come out right. The cook, who abhorred pots, would beat together a pair of Shell gasoline tins and roast the big bird over "one of those vertical blow torches known as Primus stoves." Nevertheless, there would be open house Christmas Day at the Zinder's home on the Nile, and the weather promised to be typical for Egypt in December: clear, warm and cloudless...
...Nile Valley, which teems with many strange forms of lower animal life, lives a terrifying snail. It spreads a parasitic disease, schistosomiasis, which has afflicted Egyptians since the Pharaohs; the parasite's eggs have been found in preserved human viscera 3,000 years old. For the past five years, a hardbitten, stubborn-jawed, 70-year-old U.S. doctor named Claude Heman Barlow has worked mightily to deliver Egyptians from this ancient plague. His specialty: killing snails...
Purging the Nile. The most vulnerable point in this cycle, reasoned Dr. Barlow, is the snail; if the snails were killed the young larvae would soon die and the cycle would be broken. Barlow, an old China hand (21 years a Baptist medical missionary) and longtime Rockefeller Foundation hookworm researcher in Egypt, retired five years ago to devote himself, as an Egyptian Government health officer, to snail extermination. Weapon: a copper sulphate purge, dumped into the Nile and its network of canals...
...local knowledge of the Near East shown in several of Agatha Christie's thrillers (Murder in Mesopotamia, Death on the Nile) was acquired at firsthand, as her first travel book now proves. It is a breezy, completely unsinister tale of a couple of winters she spent before the war in Syria, where her husband, Archaeologist Max Mallowan of the British Museum, went...