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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
Here's a page from Longitude, the specialty bookseller for travelers. To order online, and to see the latest, most comprehensive selection of books and maps, go to http://reading.longitudebooks.com/WT21795. You may also call 800-342-2164 to order or request a catalog.
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Eyewitness Guide Egypt
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 352 PAGES
This visually rich guide to the history, culture and monuments of Egypt includes 1,000 color photographs, maps and 3-D site diagrams.
(EGY90, $25.00) |
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The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
• Bill Manley
HISTORY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
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, $20.00) |
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The Nile Cruise
• Jenny Jobbins
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 160 PAGES
Weaving classic accounts of famous journeys (Cleopatra, Flaubert, etc.) with succinct commentary on places along the river, this captivating illustrated portrait by the American Museum in Cairo Press covers the great temples and tombs, bustling towns and beauty of the Nile from Abydos to Abu Simbel. With 150 color photographs by Sherif Sonbol.
(EGY278, $29.95) |
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Down the Nile, Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
• Rosemary Mahoney
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 273 PAGES
Mahoney weaves the tale of her quest to row the Nile with deft portraits of the people she meets, particularly Amr, the sailor who takes her underwing, and astute comments on contemporary Egypt. She conjures too Herodotus, Gustave Flaubert, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Edwards and other famous travelers who have preceded her on the Nile.
(EGY207, $14.99) |
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Egypt Map
• Nelles
2010 •
MAP
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, $13.95) |
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Also Recommended
Culture Smart! Egypt
• Jailan Zayan
• GUIDEBOOK
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A handy pocket guide to understanding local customs and etiquette.
(EGY196, $9.95)
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Say It in Arabic (Egyptian)
• Farouk El-Baz
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A guide to common words and phrases in the widely spoken Cairo dialect.
(ARB54, $4.95)
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Write Your Own Egyptian Hieroglyphs
• Angela McDonald
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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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, $17.95)
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A Traveller's History of Egypt
• Harry Ades
• HISTORY
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This effectively condensed 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
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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
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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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Egypt, A View from Above
• Philip Plisson
• Christian Jacq
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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From sand-swept desert ruins and fishing boats along the Nile to bustling Cairo and modern Alexandria, photographer Philip Plisson and Egyptologist Christian Jacq document in stunning color the many places and faces of this spectacular land.
(EGY323, $55.00)
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Luxor Illustrated, With Aswan, Abu Simbel and the Nile
• Michael Haag
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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The ideal companion to a Nile cruise, Michael Haag introduces all the famous monuments and temples of the Upper Egypt from Luxor, Karnak, Valley of the Kings and the tomb of Tutankhamun to the marvels of Aswan and Abu Simbel in full color.
(EGY277, $22.95)
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The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt
• Richard Wilkinson
• HISTORY
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This superbly illustrated 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
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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 Art of Ancient Egypt
• Gay Robins
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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Organized chronologically, this authoritative survey of the tombs, temples and sanctuaries of ancient Egypt features 300 illustrations.
(EGY52, $30.50)
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The Complete Valley of the Kings
• Nicholas Reeves
• Richard Wilkinson
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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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 Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
• Lucette Lagnado
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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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Traveling Through Egypt, From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century
• Sahar Abdel-Hakim
• Deborah Manley
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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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.
(EGY237, $24.95)
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Death on the Nile
• Agatha Christie
• MYSTERY
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How could we resist? Christie wrote Egypt's most famous murder mystery on the terrace of the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan.
(EGY09, $12.99)
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He Shall Thunder in the Sky
• Elizabeth Peters
• MYSTERY
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This riveting mystery novel finds Amelia Peabody and her family hard at work at an Egyptian archaeological site on the brink of WWI.
(EGY75, $9.99)
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Palace Walk
• Naguib Mahfouz
• LITERATURE
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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
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A playful and clever novel convincingly set in the milieu of 1920s Egyptian archaeology. Phillips deftly combines historical personages and events with wild invention.
(EGY128, $15.00)
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The Yacoubian Building
• Alaa Al Aswany
• LITERATURE
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The politics, repressed desires, hopes and dreams of Cairo are reflected through the lives of the inhabitants of a once grand apartment house in this deft novel of contemporary Egypt.
(EGY175, $13.99)
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