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Essential Books These 6 items are available for $93, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXEGY130)		  
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)		   Eyewitness Guide Egypt
Petra, The Rose-Red City  •  Christian Auge  •  Jean-Marie Dentzer
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2000 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES
A pocket guide to the art, history and culture of Petra with hundreds of archival and color illustrations, maps, site plans and a section of original documents. It includes a detailed overview of individual buildings and sectors within the desert city. Occupied by the Nabataeans from the 4th-century BC, conquered by the Romans, and overrun by the Crusaders, the city was long lost to the west; only the local people knew of this desert stronghold until its rediscovery by the Swiss explorer Burckhardt in 1812. (JRD13, $15.95)		   Petra, The Rose-Red City
The Search for Ancient Egypt  •  Jean Vercoutter
ARCHAEOLOGY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 207 PAGES
A pocket-size 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)		   The Search for Ancient Egypt
Married to a Bedouin  •  Marguerite Van Geldermalsen
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2010 •  PAPER  • 279 PAGES
An Arabic speaker who married and raised three children in a 2,000-year-old cave at Petra, Van Geldermalsen describes her transformation from young New Zealand tourist to Bedouin wife and vital member of the community in this compelling, illuminating memoir. (JRD35, $16.95)		   Married to a Bedouin
Jordan Map  •  Cartographia
MAP
A folded, colorful map of Jordan at a scale of 1:700,000, with a detailed city map of Amman on the reverse. Two Sides. 35x26 inches. (JRD18, $12.00)		   Jordan Map
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, $13.95)		   Egypt Map



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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, $8.95)
 		  
Rough Guide Jordan  •  Matthew Teller   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Teller's no-nonsense voice rings true, both in the concise background information about Jordan's highlights and in his encouragement to get off the beaten path. (JRD10, $24.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
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, $17.95)
 		  
A History of Jordan  •  Philip Robins   • HISTORY  •  An informative, brief history of Jordan and its king from the 1920s to the present by a professor of politics at Oxford. Robins was previously a Jordan-based correspondent for the BBC and The Guardian. (JRD17, $31.99)
 		  
A Traveller's History of Egypt  •  Harry Ades   • HISTORY  •  This effectively condensed chronological history takes in the full sweep from the earliest inhabitants to 21st century politics. (EGY180, $14.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Islam, A Short History  •  Karen Armstrong   • HISTORY  •  Armstrong brings authority and experience to this vivid, clear-headed survey of the history and impact of Islam from the birth of Muhammad to present-day challenges. (ISL15, $15.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt  •  Bill Manley   • HISTORY  •  Ingenious color maps, site plans, photographs and accompanying essays trace Egyptian civilization from the founding of Memphis through the sacking of Thebes and invasion by Alexander the Great in 332 BC in this authoritative, remarkably concise history. (EGY54, $20.00)
 		  
The White Nile  •  Alan Moorehead   • HISTORY  •  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. With vivid descriptions of Zanzibar, the last days of Khartoum and the building of the Suez Canal. (EGY79, $14.99)
 		  
Petra, Splendors of the Nabataean Civilization  •  Francesca Arianna Ossorio  •  Barbara A. Porter   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  With color photographs of the temples, tombs and elaborate buildings, along with archival photographs and accompanying text. (JRD34, $60.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
Leap of Faith, Memoirs of an Unexpected Life  •  Queen Noor   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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)
 		  
Seven Pillars of Wisdom, A Triumph  •  T.E. Lawrence   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The monumental story of Lawrence of Arabia, as colorful and long as the famous movie which it inspired. Some of the action is set around Wadi Rum in Jordan. (MDE20, $21.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Traveling Through Egypt, From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century  •  Sahar Abdel-Hakim  •  Deborah Manley   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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)
 		  
Appointment with Death  •  Agatha Christie   • MYSTERY  •  Hercule Poirot steps into the story when an American tourist on a grand tour of the Holy Land is found murdered in Petra. (JRD02, $12.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
The Egyptologist, A Novel  •  Arthur Phillips   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 		  
The Yacoubian Building  •  Alaa Al Aswany   • LITERATURE  •  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)
 		  
In a Desert Land, Photographs of Israel, Egypt and Jordan  •  Neil Folberg   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A stunning collection of photographs of the desert Middle East, including the Sinai, Petra and Jerusalem. (JRD06, $49.95)
 		  
The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean  •  Paddy Ryan   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The best-selling, take-along guide to coral reefs, coral-reef fishes, invertebrates and plants of the Indo-Pacific. With 200 color photographs. (DIV18, $21.99)
 		  
Birds of the Middle East  •  Richard Porter  •  Simon Aspinall   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An outstanding guide to 700 species of the birds in the region from the Arabian peninsula to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Cyprus. Second edition. (MDE17, $39.95)
 		  
 
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