Books in the Virago travellers series

In 1862, Duff Gordon embarked on a solo trip to Egypt in a bid to rid herself of consumption. She spent the next seven years in a ruined house above a temple in Luxor, on the Nile, mixing with the local people and setting up a hospital from her home. This volume tells her story through her letters.

First published in 1866, UP THE COUNTRY stands as a masterpiece of Anglo-Indian literature of enormous historical interest.