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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Eyewitness Guide Egypt
Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK
2010
FLEXI-BOUND
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) |
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The Search for Ancient Egypt
Jean Vercoutter
ARCHAEOLOGY
1992
PAPER
207 PAGES
BEST SELLER
A pocketsize encyclopedia of archaeology and history, packed with illustrations, maps and archival photographs. An entry in the acclaimed "New Horizons" 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, $15.95) |
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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, $18.00) |
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Egypt Map
Nelles
2010
MAP
BEST SELLER
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, $11.95) |
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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, $9.00) |
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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) |
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The Treasures of Luxor and the Valley of the Kings
Kent R. Weeks
GUIDEBOOK
This illustrated, authoritative guide to the celebrated temples, tombs and art of Thebes by a leading scholar includes not only Luxor and Karnak but also the temples of Madinat Habu, Merenptah and Dayr al-bahari.
(EGY295, $24.95) |
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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, $15.95) |
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Apricots on the Nile, A Memoir with Recipes
Colette Rossant
FOOD
Rossant's zesty 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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 filled with original drawings and diagrams, color photographs, essays and stunning 3-D computer renderings.
(EGY202, $24.95) |
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Inside Egypt, The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of a Revolution
John R. Bradley
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
A reporter in the region since 1999, Bradley holds no punches in this highly readable expose of the flawed politics and policies of Mubarak's military and modern Egypt.
(EGY261, $16.95) |
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Luxor Illustrated, With Aswan, Abu Simbel and the Nile
Michael Haag
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
The ideal companion to a Nile cruise, Michael Haag introduces all the famous monuments and temples of the Upper Egypt from Luxor, Karnak and the tomb of Tutankhamun to the marvels of Aswan and Abu Simbel in full color.
(EGY277, $22.95) |
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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) |
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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. She's also the author, writing as Elizabeth Peters on the best-selling Amelia Peabody mysteries.
(EGY27, $15.99) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Nile: History, Adventure, and Discovery
Gianni Guadalupi
HISTORY
Jammed with hundreds of archival documents and maps, this richly illustrated oversized history of discovery covers not just Stanley, Livingstone, Burton and Speke but also the river of the Pharaohs, Marmaluke, other early Arab and African explorers and Napoleon's campaigns.
(EGY77, $45.00) |
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The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
Ian Shaw
HISTORY
A wide-ranging overview of Egyptian society, culture, art and literature, from 700,000 BC to AD 311 by a team of scholars.
(EGY117, $27.95) |
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Traveling Through Egypt, From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
Sahar Abdel-Hakim
Deborah Manley
HISTORY
From Herodotus to Napoleon, Flaubert to Twain, Egypt has long enchanted travelers, as shown by this choice anthology of excerpts from centuries of travelogues, histories and memoirs of every part of Egypt.
(EGY237, $24.95) |
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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, $27.95) |
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The Complete Pyramids
Mark Lehner
ARCHAEOLOGY
A fully illustrated compendium of every major pyramid in Egypt by the director of the Giza mapping project. With 450 maps, photographs, reconstructions and site diagrams.
(EGY33, $26.95) |
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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) |
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The Giza Plateau Mapping Project
Mark Lehner
ARCHAEOLOGY
This first volume of the Giza technical reports, with a forward by Zahi Hawass, covers the project history, survey, ceramics, and the Main Street and Gallery III.4. With foldout maps, drawings, photographs and site plans.
(EGY297, $60.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Out of Egypt, A Memoir
Andre Aciman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
The flamboyant history of the author's Jewish family in Alexandria over three generations.
(EGY19, $16.00) |
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Secrets from the Sand
Zahi Hawass
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An illustrated celebration of a career in archaeology by Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Director of the Giza Pyramids Excavation. This book combines the author's memories and insights with his descriptions of archaeological finds, many of which are shown in color photographs.
(EGY112, $45.00) |
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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) |
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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, $14.99) |
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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) |
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Karnak Cafe
Naguib Mahfouz
LITERATURE
In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear and betrayal.
(EGY245, $13.00) |
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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) |
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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) |
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The Yacoubian Building
Alaa Al Aswany
LITERATURE
Hugely popular in Egypt, this short novel reflects contemporary society through the lives and fortunes of the inhabitants of a once elegant Art Deco building in Cairo.
(EGY175, $13.99) |
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