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JORDAN, EGYPT AND THE RED SEA
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Alexandria Illustrated  •  Micahel Haag   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A warm, richly illustrated portrait of the city, featuring 125 color photographs of the people, monuments and attractions of Alexandria alongside Michael Haag's insightful commentary. (EGY142, $22.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
A History of the Arab Peoples  •  Albert Hourani   • HISTORY  •  A grand history of the Arab world by the distinguished Oxford historian Albert Hourani, this is a readable and much acclaimed survey that ranges over 13 centuries, chronicling the political, spiritual, religious and cultural traditions of the Arab peoples in 26 lucidly written chapters. (MDE11, $16.99)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
Parting the Desert, the Creation of the Suez Canal  •  Zachary Karabell   • HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT  •  A compelling account of the politics, intrigue and engineering challenges of the Suez Canal. It's in part a portrait of Franco-Egyptian relations and the making of the modern Middle East. (EGY125, $15.00)
 
 
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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