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When Hawkins first advanced this theory in 1963, critics denounced it variously as meretricious and pure moonshine. Since then, he has bolstered his argument considerably while extending his inquiries to other works of preliterate man. He peered through temples along the Nile with his guide Gamel, "the quintessence of experts - an Egyp tian Egyptologist," and roamed the deserts of Peru with Palacio the grave robber. To avert unpleasant dietary sur prises, Hawkins stuck to an "expedition diet: beer, bread and stews boiled and bubbled to sterility." Surprises some times defied even this regime, however. In Cuzco, a tea prescribed...
...reporter is a young subaltern, connected and surpassingly self-confident. He charges with the 21st against the dervishes at Khartoum, makes his way alone through the to the Nile, escapes from a Boer camp into an eight-day chase. Apart from money and fame, his principal aim in these dispatches is to win each breakfast reader of the Daily Telegraph and Morning Post to his own vision of colonial expansion. This is the age of Cecil Rhodes and Joseph Chamberlain. The exuberant correspondent foresees a "brave system of state-aided - almost state-compelled - emigration" to "regions of possibil ity" where...
...goes to Henley as expected, they will face international competition as a crew for the first time--but not as individuals. Several of the Crimson oarsmen rowed in the Nile Festival Regatta at Cairo earlier this year against English and Egyptian crews...
...rich young friend Maxime du Camp had wangled a government mission to photograph the temples of the Nile, then half buried in sand and almost unknown to the European public. Flaubert went along. The two were in Egypt for nine months. They saw the sights and visited the local celebrities, joined caravans of pilgrims and slaves. They sailed up and down the Nile, shaved their heads and wore tarbooshes, sat up late at night smoking long Turkish pipes and comparing their notes and observations. They kept diaries and wrote letters home-chaste and respectful ones to Mme. Flaubert, wildly lubricious...
...reveling in the exotic surroundings, he was mulling over a novel about life back in humdrum Normandy, where he knew the people and spoke the language. Accord ing to Du Camp (and Steegmuller tends to believe him) it was on a barren hill overlooking the Second Cataract of the Nile that he cried: "Eureka! I will call her Emma Bovary...