An entertaining luxury tour down a pre War Nile through a fabulous and nearly deserted Egypt and Sudan, complete with handsome, mysterious and sinister dragomans, beautiful women (in this book, they are all beautiful, gentle and self-willed), women who are heiresses and women who carry deadly secrets, as well as women who think they are Cleopatra. There are adventures in hashish dens, in sacred temples, in riverside cave temples and tombs, buried treasure, and Romance. A marvellous read, if more than slightly out of step with modern tastes.