The English scholar and explorer Leo Arthur Tregenza ‎(‎1901‎-98‎)‎ arrived in Egypt in 1927 as a school teacher‎,‎ and remained there until the 1952 Revolution‎.‎ From his native Cornwall he brought with him an abiding passion for Roman civilization‎,‎ natural history‎,‎ and walking‎,‎ interests which he continued to pursue in Egypt by traveling on foot during school vacations through some of the country‎'‎s wildest and most historic landscapes‎.‎ In The Red Sea Mountains of Egypt and Egyptian Years Tregenza describes and Egypt now unknown to us‎,‎ in which the waters of the Nile still flooded and Bedouin of the desert practiced a way of life unchanged for thousands of years‎.‎ The two volumes deal mainly with his three long treks ‎(‎1947‎,‎ 1949‎,‎ 1951‎)‎ in the Eastern Desert‎.‎ They also provide highly valuable depictions of the pre‎-High Dam rhythms of the Nile and its rural peoples‎.‎ Walking with Tregenza‎,‎ we probe the Greek and Roman mining and quarrying sites of the desert wilderness‎,‎ including Mons Porphyrites and Mons Claudianus‎.‎ An assiduous observer of the wildlif‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎