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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXEGY149)		  
Eyewitness Guide Egypt  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2011 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES
This visually rich guide to the history, culture and monuments of Egypt includes 1,000 color photographs, maps and 3-D site diagrams. (EGY90, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Egypt
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt  •  Bill Manley
HISTORY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES
Organized chronologically, this book is a concise survey of the economic and political development of ancient Egypt as shown through ingenious color maps, site plans, photographs and accompanying essays. If you love maps, this is an indispensable reference. (EGY54, $20.00)		   The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
Petra, The Rose-Red City  •  Christian Auge  •  Jean-Marie Dentzer
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2000 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES
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)		   Petra, The Rose-Red City
Egypt Map  •  Nelles
2010 •  MAP
At a 1:1,750,000 scale, this handy map includes insets of Luxor, Valley of the Kings, Giza, Nile River Valley, Cairo and other sites. Two Sides. 20x40 inches. (EGY03, $13.95)		   Egypt Map



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Cairo Map  •  Cartographia    •  A colorful, folded map of Cairo on thick paper. Insets of Luxor, Alexandria and Heliopolis. Scale 1:13,000. (EGY163, $8.95)
 		  
Footprint Egypt, Nile Valley & Red Sea  •  Kelly,Pipes   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Stylish, beautifully illustrated and packed with lots of local knowledge, this compact guide in the new series includes an excellent month-by-month guide to the pros and cons of visiting at the various times of year. Author John Smith includes driving tours, walks, a section on diving the Red Sea and invaluable advise on navigating the streets of Cairo -- no mean feat. (EGY272, $21.95)
 		  
Say It in Arabic (Egyptian)  •  Farouk El-Baz   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A guide to common words and phrases in the widely spoken Cairo dialect. (ARB54, $4.95)
 		  
Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs  •  Angela McDonald   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Understand the language of the Pharaohs! McDonald's handy illustrated guide to reading, writing and understanding ancient Egyptian names, epithets, titles and phrases includes 50 color illustrations and 200 line drawings. (EGY25, $17.95)
 		  
A History of the Arab Peoples  •  Albert Hourani   • HISTORY  •  Called a landmark, masterpiece and essential to understanding the Middle East, Hourani's acclaimed chronicle of the political, spiritual, religious and cultural traditions of the Arab peoples is brought up to date with an afterword by noted Islamic scholar Malise Ruthven. (MDE11, $18.95)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Egypt  •  Harry Ades   • HISTORY  •  This effectively condensed chronological history takes in the full sweep from the earliest inhabitants to 21st century politics. (EGY180, $14.95)
 		  
Cairo, The City Victorious  •  Max Rodenbeck   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Rodenbeck presents his hometown in all its chaotic, marvelous glory, combining a lively history of the 5,000-year-old metropolis with description, anecdote and political commentary. (EGY38, $15.95)
 		  
Egypt on the Brink  •  Tarek Osman   • HISTORY  •  With a lengthy new introduction, Osman brings his thoroughly readable history of increasingly divided, complex modern Egypt since the rise of Nassar up to date through the fall of Mubarak. (EGY371, $15.00)
 		  
Egypt, A Short History  •  Robert L. Tignor   • HISTORY  •  Princeton historian Tignor distills five decades of study and travel for this vivid account of the sweep and tumult of Egyptian history from the settlement of the Nile to the present. (EGY370, $19.95)
 		  
Inside Egypt  •  John R. Bradley   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A reporter in the region since 1999, Bradley pulls no punches in this highly readable expose of the politics and policies of Mubarak's military and modern Egypt. (EGY261, $16.00)
 		  
Islam, A Short History  •  Karen Armstrong   • HISTORY  •  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. The best short introduction to the subject. (ISL15, $15.95)
 		  
Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of Islamic Women  •  Geraldine Brooks   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A highly readable overview of the role of women in Islamic society, drawn from the author's many interviews with women throughout the Arab World. (ARB06, $15.00)
 		  
The Egyptians  •  Cyril Aldred   • HISTORY  •  A volume in the "Ancient Peoples and Places" series, this classic book is an outstanding account of the history and culture of ancient Egypt. With hundreds of illustrations and maps. (EGY26, $18.95)
 		  
The White Nile  •  Alan Moorehead   • HISTORY  •  A lively history of the Victorian search for the source of the Nile including the extraordinary tales of Burton and Speke, not to mention the famous meeting of Livingstone and Stanley. With vivid descriptions of Zanzibar, the last days of Khartoum and the building of the Suez Canal. (EGY79, $14.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
The Art of Ancient Egypt  •  Gay Robins   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Organized chronologically, this authoritative survey of the tombs, temples and sanctuaries of ancient Egypt features 300 illustrations. (EGY52, $30.50)
 		  
The Complete Valley of the Kings  •  Nicholas Reeves  •  Richard Wilkinson   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  A thorough and intriguing look at the burial place of the New Kingdom pharaohs, this book brings together the art, architecture and history of the valley; contains profiles of archaeologists, diagrams and detailed site descriptions. (EGY14, $26.95)
 		  
The Nile Cruise  •  Jenny Jobbins   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Weaving classic travelers' accounts with essays and 150 color photographs, this compact book beautifully illuminates the history and allure of the towns, temples and tombs of the Nile from Abydos to Abu Simbel. (EGY278, $29.95)
 		  
The Search for Ancient Egypt  •  Jean Vercoutter   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  This pocket encyclopedia, packed with illustrations, tells the tale of Greek travelers, buried treasure, international intrigue and scholarship in understanding Egypt. (EGY02, $15.95)
 		  
The Sisters of Sinai, How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Hidden Gospels  •  Janet Soskice   • EXPLORATION  •  Soskice vividly recounts the story of Agnes and Margaret Smith, two unlikely and unsung heroines, and their discovery in 1892 of one of the earliest known copies of the gospels at St. Catherine's. (EGY334, $16.95)
 		  
Down the Nile, Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff  •  Rosemary Mahoney   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Mahoney weaves the tale of her quest to row the Nile with deft portraits of the people she meets in this marvelously engaging chronicle. (EGY207, $14.99)
 		  
Leap of Faith, Memoirs of an Unexpected Life  •  Queen Noor   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • COMING IN  •  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)
 		  
Married to a Bedouin  •  Marguerite Van Geldermalsen   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  "Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight -- in my cave?" Thus begins the fascinating odyssey of a young nurse from New Zealand who would marry and raise her family among the community of 100 Bedouin families living in the ancient city of Petra. (JRD35, $16.95)
 		  
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 Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World  •  Lucette Lagnado   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Lagnado poignantly evokes the life of her marvelously social father (the "boulevardier of Cairo") and his milieu in this textured memoir. (EGY215, $14.99)
 		  
Appointment with Death  •  Agatha Christie   • MYSTERY  •  Hercule Poirot steps into the story when an American tourist on a grand tour of the Holy Land is found murdered in Petra. (JRD02, $12.99)
 		  
Death on the Nile  •  Agatha Christie   • MYSTERY  •  How could we resist? Christie wrote Egypt's most famous murder mystery on the terrace of the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan. (EGY09, $12.99)
 		  
Early Christian Lives  •  Carolinne White   • LITERATURE  •  These pioneering Lives are central sources for Christian monastic figures from St Antony, who died in 356, to St Benedict (c. 480-547). (REL49, $16.00)
 		  
Palace Walk  •  Naguib Mahfouz   • LITERATURE  •  The first volume in the monumental Cairo Trilogy, a family saga set in post-WWI Egypt. Nobel Prize-winning Mahfouz provides insight into life in Egypt and the revolution against the British. (EGY04, $16.00)
 		  
The Yacoubian Building  •  Alaa Al Aswany   • LITERATURE  •  The politics, repressed desires, hopes and dreams of Cairo are reflected through the lives of the inhabitants of a once grand apartment house in this deft novel of contemporary Egypt. (EGY175, $13.99)
 		  
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   • 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  •  Richard Porter  •  Simon Aspinall   • 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. Second edition. (MDE17, $39.95)
 		  
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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