This Google Map plots out the Nile routes given in Sir John Gardner Wilkinson's Hand-book for travellers in Egypt; including descriptions of the course of the Nile to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the pyramids, and Thebes, the overland transit to India, the peninsula of Mount Sinai, the oases, &c. Being a new edition, corrected and condensed, of 'Modern Egypt and Thebes. (London: John Murray, 1847). For more information about this guidebook, the history of Nile cruises, and the process of creating the Google Map, see The Nile Cruise, 1847 and 1897.
Our Google Map of the Wilkinson's Nile itinerary shows sites listed under the following sections in the guidebook's table of contents. Note that the color of the font matches the color used to trace the route on the map.
- ROUTE 20. CAIRO TO BENISOOÉF, BY WATER
- ROUTE 21. BENISOOÉF TO MÍNIEH
- ROUTE 22. MINIEH TO OSIOOT
- ROUTE 23. OSIOOT TO GIRGEH
- ROUTE 24: GIRGEH TO ḴENEH
- ROUTE 25: KENEH TO THEBES
- SECTION IV: THEBES
- ROUTE 26: ḴENEH TO ḴOSSAYR, BY THE MOÁYLEH OR MOILEH ROAD
- ROUTE 27. ḴENEH TO ḴOSSAYR, BY THE RUSSAFA ROAD
- ROUTE 28. THEBES TO ḴOSSAYR
- ROUTE 29: THEBES TO ASOUAN, THE FIRST CATARACT, ELEPHANTINE, SEHAYL, AND PHILÆ
- ROUTE 30. ASOUAN (BY PHILÆ) TO DERR, BY WATER (MEASURED FROM VILLAGE TO VILLAGE)
- ROUTE 31. DERR TO ABOO-SIMBEL AND WADEE HALFEH
