Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt : In Company with Several Divisions of the French Army, during the Campaigns of General Bonaparte in that Country (Paperback)

Preface; 1. The author embarks at Toulon; 2. Arrival of the fleet at Malta - attack on the town and capitulation; 3. Storming of Alexandria; 4. March from Alexandria to the interior of the country; 5. The British fleet descried, and naval battle of Aboukir; 6. Anniversary feast on the birth of Mahomet; 7. The author enters the Delta; 8. Voyage from Rosetta up the Nile to Cairo; 9. Mummies of the ibis in the vaults of Saccara, and conjectures concerning that bird; 10. Desaix returns to Cairo for reinforcements.