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	Petra, The Rose-Red City  •  Christian Auge  •  Jean-Marie Dentzer ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2000 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES • BEST SELLER A pocket guide to the art, history and culture of Petra with hundreds of archival and color illustrations, maps, site plans and a section of original documents. It includes a detailed overview of individual buildings and sectors within the desert city. Occupied by the Nabataeans from the 4th-century BC, conquered by the Romans, and overrun by the Crusaders, the city was long lost to the west; only the local people knew of this desert stronghold until its rediscovery by the Swiss explorer Burckhardt in 1812. (JRD13, $15.95)
	Married to a Bedouin  •  Marguerite Van Geldermalsen BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2010 •  PAPER  • 279 PAGES • BEST SELLER "'Where you staying?' the Bedouin asked. 'Why you not stay with me tonight--in my cave.' He seemed enthusiastic. And we were looking for adventure." Thus begins the story of how Marguerite van Geldermalsen--a New Zealand-born nurse -- became the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja tribe, and lived with him and their children in a community of 100 families in the ancient caves of Petra in Jordan. Marguerite and a friend were traveling through the Middle East in 1978 when she met the charismatic Mohammad and decided that he was the man for her. Their home was a lofty 2,000 year-old cave carved into the red rock of a hillside. She became the resident nurse and learned to live like the Bedouin -- cooking over fires, hauling water on donkeys, and drinking sweet black tea -- and over the years she became as much of a curiosity as the cave-dwellers to tourists. (JRD35, $14.95)
	Lonely Planet Jordan  •  Jenny Walker GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 360 PAGES A practical guide in the popular series, featuring plenty of maps, tips and basic sightseeing information. (JRD16, $22.99)
	Jordan Map  •   Cartographia MAP A folded, colorful map of Jordan at a scale of 1:700,000. Two Sides. 35x26 inches. (JRD18, $12.00)

	Jordan & Syria Map  •   International Travel Maps    •  This regional map (1:700,000) shows not only Jordan & Syria but also all of Israel. (MDE14, $12.95)
	Petra, A Traveller's Guide  •  Rosalyn Maqsood  •  Ann Jousiffe   • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN APRIL  •  This excellent compact guide features 10 walking tours and practical details for getting the most out of visiting Petra. Please take the history chapter with a grain of salt; the biblical information is peculiar at best -- and unneeded. (MDE02, $19.95)
	Spectrum Guide to Jordan  •   Camerapix   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handsome guidebook features in-depth essays and hundreds of color photographs introducing the culture, history and archaeology of Jordan. With travel information, maps, wildlife checklists and information on politics and the economy. (JRD09, $22.95)
	A History of Jordan  •  Philip Robins   • HISTORY  •  An informative, brief history of Jordan and its king from the 1920s to the present by a professor of politics at Oxford. Robins was previously a Jordan-based correspondent for the BBC and Guardian. (JRD17, $29.99)
	Islam, A Short History  •  Karen Armstrong   • RELIGION  •  Armstrong brings authority and experience to this vivid, clear-headed survey of the history and impact of Islam from the birth of Muhammad to present-day challenges. A Modern Library Chronicles book. (ISL15, $14.95)
	Islam, The Straight Path  •  John L. Esposito   • RELIGION  •  A well-written survey of the faith, practice and beliefs of Islam. It's a balanced tome intended for an undergraduate audience, yet it also functions as an excellent overview for the general reader. (MDE22, $39.95)
	Live from Jordan, Letters Home from My Journey through the Middle East  •  Benjamin Orbach   • HISTORY  •  Orbach's down-to-earth, eyewitness report of daily life, attitudes and politics in Jordan. (JRD25, $22.00)
	Petra  •  Maria G. A. Guzzo  •  E. Equini Schneider   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  An illustrated overview of the history and culture of the Nabateans and guide to the city of Petra, its art and architecture by two Italian archaeologists. With 97 color plates, archival drawings and maps. (MDE68, $48.00)
	Roman Arabia  •  G.W. Bowerstock   • HISTORY  •  A remarkable history of the Romans in the Arab world. For the traveler with scholarly inclinations, this lucid book provides essential background to the Roman archeological sites in the Middle East. (MDE12, $26.50)
	Petra, Splendors of the Nabataean Civilization  •  Francesca Arianna Ossorio  •  Barbara A. Porter   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  With color photographs of the temples, tombs and elaborate buildings, along with archival photographs and accompanying text. (JRD34, $60.00)
	Eothen  •  Alexander William Kinglake   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Originally published in 1844, this classic account of journeys throughout the Middle East and Asia Minor, including Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Damascus and Petra takes the form and tone of a letter to a good friend: conversational, ironic and personal. (MDE24, $21.00)
	Lawrence of Arabia  •  Liddell Hart   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A lively biography of T. E. Shaw (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia), long the standard. With 17 photos and ten maps. (JRD07, $18.95)
	Leap of Faith, Memoirs of an Unexpected Life  •  Queen Noor   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The absorbing, personal story of Jordan's American-born Queen Noor touches upon her husband's efforts at peacemaking, his death and contemporary Arab-Israeli relations. (JRD21, $15.99)
	Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph  •  T.E. Lawrence   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The monumental story of Lawrence of Arabia, as colorful and long as the famous movie which it inspired. Some of the action is set around Wadi Rum in Jordan. (MDE20, $21.00)
	The Language of Baklava  •  Diana Abu-Jaber   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this evocative culinary memoir, the Jordanian-American novelist recalls growing up with her gregarious, homesick Jordanian father, who cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection to his children. With one recipe per chapter. (JRD22, $14.95)
	Walking the Bible, A Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses  •  Bruce Feiler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An account of a 10,000-mile trek through the Biblical lands of the Middle East in the company of an Israeli archaeologist. It's part travelogue, part pilgrimage, and part quest for religious meaning. (MDE50, $14.99)
	Appointment with Death  •  Agatha Christie   • MYSTERY  •  Hercule Poirot steps into the story when an American tourist is found murdered in Petra. (JRD02, $6.99)
	Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist  •  Dorothy Gilman   • MYSTERY  •  Mrs. Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan, a document that encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein's reign. (JRD32, $6.99)
	In a Desert Land, Photographs of Israel, Egypt and Jordan  •  Neil Folberg   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A stunning collection of photographs of the desert Middle East, including the Sinai, Petra and Jerusalem. (JRD06, $49.95)
	The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean  •  Paddy Ryan  •  Peter Atkinson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The best-selling, take-along guide to coral reefs, coral reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indo-Pacific. With 200 color photographs. (DIV18, $21.99)
	Birds of the Middle East  •  R.F. Porter  •  P. Schiermacker-Hansen  •  S. Christensen   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An outstanding guide to 700 species of the birds in the region from the Arabian peninsula to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Cyprus. (MDE17, $40.00)
	Fishwatcher's Field Guide Red Sea  •  Jerry Greenberg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This double-sided plastic card shows 64 of the most commonly encountered reef fish of the Red Sea in full-color illustrations, convenient for the boat or beach. (DIV13, $7.50)

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