Cook’s Tourist Handbook: Egypt, The Nile and Desert

Title
Cook’s Tourist Handbook: Egypt, The Nile and Desert
Year/Period
1897
Region
Singapore
Dimension
Object size: Refer to parts
Accession No.
2014-00035

This guidebook was produced by Thomas Cook & Son as a handbook for tourists. The book includes basic information on travel, which is not always accurate. For example, it suggests ones drinks ‘a glass of Nile water fasting’ as a cure for illnesses such as dyspepsia, diarrhoea and dysentery.