Recounts the life of an extraordinary Victorian woman whose Letters from Egypt enchanted British readers. "In 1862 Lucie Duff Gordon reluctantly bid farewell to her life at the center of London society and sailed to Egypt, where she fell in love with the land and the culture. One hundred and twenty-six years later, Katherine Frank boarded a flight for Cairo in search of the woman whose Letters from Egypt enchanted British readers. A Passage to Egypt recounts the life of an extraordinary Victorian woman, and her biographer's pursuit of her."--Book Jacket.