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The Black Nile
• Dan Morrison
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
Inspired by Alan Moorehead's classic river chronicles The Blue Nile and The White Nile, foreign correspondent Morrison bought a plank-board boat and set out from Uganda, paddling the Nile across Sudan toward Cairo with a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil in tow. The result is a portrait, sometimes funny and sometimes frightening, of a region in the midst of profound transition.
(AFR271, $16.00) |
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The Blue Nile
• Alan Moorehead
HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
In this grand history of exploration and events on the great river from 1798 to 1869, Moorehead follows the course of the Blue Nile from the Ethiopian highlands through Sudan and Egypt to the Mediterranean. Originally published in the 1960s. Moorehead has also written of the Victorian exploration of the river in The White Nile.
(EGY67, $14.99) |
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Egypt and the Egyptians
• Emily Teeter
• Douglas J. Brewer
HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 255 PAGES
Surveying more than three thousand years of Egyptian civilization, Egypt and the Egyptians offers a comprehensive introduction to this most rich and complex of early societies. Written for students and the general reader, this richly illustrated book is an essential resource for anybody wishing to explore the society and civilization of ancient Egypt.
(EGY329, $40.00) |
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Egypt on the Brink
• Tarek Osman
HISTORY •
2011 •
PAPER
• 300 PAGES
Osman examines Egypt's central role in the development of the two crucial movements of the period, Arab nationalism and radical Islam; the increasingly contentious relationship between Muslims and Christians; and perhaps most important of all, the rift between the cosmopolitan elite and the mass of the undereducated and underemployed population, more than half of whom are aged under thirty.
(EGY371, $15.00) |
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National Geographic Egypt
• Andrew Humphreys
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
This guide to Egypt, published in the National Geographic attractive visual style, features hundreds of photographs, 30 full color maps, and good information history, nature, culture and travel in Egypt.
(EGY97, $27.95) |
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A Peace to End All Peace
• David Fromkin
HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 688 PAGES
The 20th anniversary edition of David Fromkin's vivid tale of the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern Middle East -- indispensable to understanding current tensions, shifting alliances and the colonial legacy of the region. Frompkin illuminates the personalities, politics and, above all, the decisions by Britain, France and allies that divvied up the scraps of the Ottoman Empire into modern nations in the wake of WWI. This book has been called the best survey of the early 20th-century background to modern day realities in the region. A new edition.
(ARB13, $22.00) |
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The Pharaoh's Kitchen, Recipes from Ancient Egypt's Enduring Food Traditions
• Amr Hussein
• Magda Mehdawy
FOOD •
2010 •
PAPER
• 161 PAGES
Adventurous cooks and Egyptophiles will enjoy this illustrated guide to the culinary traditions of the ancient Egyptians, which includes recipes, cooking methods, ingredients, commentary on the ancient home and kitchen, and traditional feasts, some of which are still celebrated today.
(EGY352, $24.95) |
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