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Eyewitness Guide Egypt
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 352 PAGES
BEST SELLER
A visually rich guide to the history, culture and monuments of Egypt. With 1,000 color photographs, maps and innovative site diagrams.
(EGY90, $25.00)
The Search for Ancient Egypt
Jean Vercoutter
ARCHAEOLOGY 1992 PAPER 207 PAGES
BEST SELLER
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A pocket-size encyclopedia of archaeology and history, packed with illustrations, maps and archival photographs. An entry in the acclaimed "Discoveries" series, this slim paperback is a tale of Greek travelers, buried treasure, international intrigue and dedicated scholarship. It documents our rediscovery and changing understanding of ancient Egypt.
(EGY02, $12.95)
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
Bill Manley
HISTORY 1996 PAPER 144 PAGES
BEST SELLER
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, $16.95)
Egypt Map
Freytag & Berndt
2008 MAP
BEST SELLER
At a 1:1,000,000 scale, this map covers all of Egypt as well as much of Israel, including Jerusalem. It shows roads and shaded relief, and includes detailed renderings of archaeological sites. With a map of the Nile on the reverse showing Thebes, Alexandria, and the location of some important archaeological sites.
(EGY03, $12.95)
Cairo Map
National Geographic
A handy laminated travellers's map of Cairo.
(EGY163, $8.99)
Cairo, The Family Guide
Lesley Lababidi
GUIDEBOOK
An indispensable, A locally produced guide to kid-friendly itineraries, sites and attractions.
(EGY242, $17.95)
Culture Smart! Egypt
Jailan Zayan
GUIDEBOOK
A handy pocket guide to understanding local customs, etiquette and culture.
(EGY196, $9.95)
Knopf Guide Egypt
Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK
A slender, attractive guide to Egypt, ancient and modern, with much on Cairo.
(EGY23, $29.95)
Say It in Arabic
Farouk El-Baz
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
A guide to common words and phrases in the widely spoken Cairo dialect.
(ARB54, $4.95)
Think Like an Egyptian, 100 Hieroglyphs
Barry Kemp
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
Here's a short book that will help you understand the ancient Egyptian language.
(EGY25, $15.00)
Apricots on the Nile, A Memoir With Recipes
Collette Rossant
FOOD
Rossant's piquant tale of waiting out WWII on the Nile in Cairo's Garden City with her father's extended Egyptian-Jewish family. With recipes.
(EGY213, $12.00)
A Traveller's History of Egypt
Harry Ades
HISTORY
This effectively condensed, brief chronological history takes in the full sweep from the earliest inhabitants to 21st century politics.
(EGY180, $14.95)
Cairo Illustrated
Michael Haag
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A warm, richly illustrated portrait of the city, featuring 125 color photographs of the people, monuments and attractions of Cairo alongside Michael Haag's insightful commentary.
(EGY203, $22.95)
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, $14.95)
Chronicle of the Pharaohs, The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt
Peter A. Clayton
HISTORY
This book will help you to sort out who's who in ancient Egypt, what they built, what they did and what they looked like. It contains 350 illustrations, many in color.
(EGY32, $24.95)
Imagining Egypt, A Living Portrait of the Time of the Pharaohs
Mark Millmore
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
Millmore animates the history, culture and daily life of the people of ancient Egypt in this lively illustrated overview. The book is jammed with original drawings and diagrams, color photographs, essays and stunning 3-D computer renderings.
(EGY202, $24.95)
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, $14.95)
Temples, Tombs and Hieroglyphs, A Popular History of Ancient Egypt
Barbara Mertz
HISTORY
Mertz's great enthusiasm and formidable scholarship brings ancient Egypt to life for the general reader in this updated classic.
(EGY27, $26.95)
The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
Richard Wilkinson
HISTORY
This superbly illustrated and authoritative survey covers Egyptian temple life from construction of the monuments to society, religious rites, festivals and discovery.
(EGY238, $39.95)
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)
Traveling Through Egypt, From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
Sahar Abdel-Hakim
Deborah Manley
HISTORY
From Herodotus to Napolean, Flaubert and Twain, Egypt has enchanted travelers ever since Herodotus, as shown by this terrific anthology which brings together excerpts from centuries of travelogues, histories and memoirs of every part of Egypt.
(EGY237, $24.95)
The Art of Ancient Egypt
Gay Robins
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An overview of 3,000 years of Egyptian art. Organized chronologically, the book features 300 illustrations in color and black and white of sculptures, reliefs and other artifacts.
(EGY52, $25.50)
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 Great Pyramids
Jean-Pierre Corteggiani
ARCHAEOLOGY
The newest addition to the acclaimed Discoveries series, this lavishly illustrated pocket encyclopedia illuminates the archaeology, history and splendor of Giza, last of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
(EGY221, $12.95)
Down the Nile, Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
Rosemary Mahoney
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
With Edwardian river travelers as her inspiration, Mahoney hires a rowboat and sets forth on a 120-mile journey in this engaging tale.
(EGY207, $23.99)
Out of Egypt, A Memoir
Andre Aciman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The flamboyant history of the author's Jewish family in Alexandria over three generations.
(EGY19, $15.00)
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, $14.95)
The Nile: History, Adventure, and Discovery
Gianni Guadalupi
EXPLORATION
This richly illustrated oversized history of discovery, jammed with hundreds of archival photographs, drawings, paintings and maps covers not just Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and Speke but also the river of the Pharaohs. Marmaluke and other early Arab and African explorers and Napolean's campaigns.
(EGY77, $45.00)
The White Nile
Alan Moorehead
EXPLORATION
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.
(EGY79, $14.95)
Cairo Modern
Naguib Mahfouz
LITERATURE
Mahfouz's barbed tale of Cairo and Egyptian society in the 1930s, translated into English for the first time by William Hutchins (Cairo Trilogy).
(EGY243, $19.95)
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, $6.99)
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, $15.95)
The Egyptologist, A Novel
Arthur Phillips
LITERATURE
A playful and clever novel convincingly set in the milieu of 1920's Egyptian archaeology. Phillips deftly combines historical personages and events with wild invention.
(EGY128, $13.95)
The Yacoubian Building, A Novel
Alaa Al Aswany
LITERATURE
This short novel, hugely popular in Egypt, reflects contemporary Egypt through the lives and fortunes of the inhabitants of a once elegant Art Deco building in Cairo.
(EGY175, $13.95)
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