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JORDAN
Worth Looking For
Petra and the Lost Kingdom of the Nabataeans
• Jane Taylor
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2005 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
• COMING IN
An illustrated overview of Petra, its history and the Nabataean civilization. With 150 full-color photographs, and an extensive text describing Petra's history from the Stone Age to the Nabateans (who constructed the city) through the Crusades.
(JRD11, $24.95) |
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Petra, A Traveller's Guide
• Rosalyn Maqsood
• Ann Jousiffe
GUIDEBOOK •
2002 •
PAPER
• 236 PAGES
• COMING IN
This third edition of Maqsood's excellent compact guide to exploring the capitol of the Nabateans includes an overview of the city's history and highlights, and a variety of terrific walking tours along with suggestions of the best use of your time. With numerous maps and color photos. Please take the history chapter with a grain of salt; the biblical information is peculiar at best -- and unneeded.
(MDE02, $19.95) |
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Leap of Faith, Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
• Queen Noor
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2005 •
PAPER
• 496 PAGES
• 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) |
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Petra
• Maria G. A. Guzzo
• E. Equini Schneider
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2002 •
HARD COVER
• 197 PAGES
• COMING IN
An illustrated overview of the history and culture of the Nabateans and guide to the city of Petra, its art and architecture by two Italian archaeologists. With 97 color plates, archival drawings and maps. The remarkable city of Petra was for centuries capital of the Nabatean kingdom and a stop on the spice route. Later overtaken by the Roman Empire, the city was lost to the west until its rediscovery in 1812.
(MDE68, $48.00) |
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