I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since her day. You realize how far she had to travel. Not only is it a good 150 miles against the current, you can't take a ship.
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Stacy Schiff was a contemporary American biographer, editor, essayist. Stacy Madeleine Schiff is an American essayist. Her biography of VĂ©ra Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Read more on Wikipedia →