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	Eyewitness Guide Egypt  •   Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES • BEST SELLER A visually rich guide to the history, culture and monuments of Egypt. With 1,000 color photographs, maps and innovative site diagrams. (EGY90, $25.00)
	Rough Guide Jordan  •  Matthew Teller GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 372 PAGES • COMING IN SEPTEMBER An enormously informative and well-written travel guide to Jordan, including a 50-page section on Petra. Teller's no-nonsense voice rings true throughout the book, both in the concise historical information for each sight and his gentle encouragement to get off the beaten path. (JRD10, $24.99)
	Petra, Lost City of the Ancient World  •  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, $12.95)
	The Search for Ancient Egypt  •  Jean Vercoutter ARCHAEOLOGY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 207 PAGES • BEST SELLER • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE A pocketsize encyclopedia of archaeology and history, packed with illustrations, maps and archival photographs. An entry in the acclaimed "Discoveries" 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, $12.95)
	The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt  •  Bill Manley HISTORY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES • BEST SELLER 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, $18.00)

	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)
	Culture Smart! Egypt  •  Jailan Zayan   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy pocket guide to understanding local customs and etiquette. (EGY196, $9.95)
	Petra, A Traveller's Guide  •  Rosalyn Maqsood  •  Ann Jousiffe   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This excellent compact guide includes history, maps, photos and a variety of walking tours. (MDE02, $16.95)
	Say It in Arabic  •  Farouk El-Baz   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A guide to common words and phrases in the widely spoken Cairo dialect. (ARB54, $4.95)
	Spectrum Guide to Jordan  •   Camerapix   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This handsome guidebook features in-depth essays and hundreds of color photographs introducing the culture, history and archaeology of Jordan. With travel information, maps, wildlife checklists and information on politics and the economy. (JRD09, $22.95)
	Think Like an Egyptian, 100 Hieroglyphs  •  Barry Kemp   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  This short book will help you understand the ancient Egyptian language. (EGY25, $15.00)
	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)
	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 Guardian. (JRD17, $29.99)
	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)
	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, 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)
	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, $14.95)
	Parting the Desert, the Creation of the Suez Canal  •  Zachary Karabell   • HISTORY  •  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)
	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 Nile: History, Adventure, and Discovery  •  Gianni Guadalupi   • HISTORY  •  This richly illustrated oversized history of discovery, jammed with hundreds of archival photographs, drawings, paintings and maps, 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)
	Traveling Through Egypt, From 450 B.C. to the Twentieth Century  •  Sahar Abdel-Hakim  •  Deborah Manley   • HISTORY  •  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 of every part of Egypt. (EGY237, $24.95)
	Jordan, Past and Present  •  E. Borgia   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Ingenious overlay illustrations really set this book apart from the rest. It shows the ruins at Petra, Jerash and Amman as they look today and as they looked in their heydays via overlaid acetate illustrations. Recommended for any archaeologically inclined traveler to Jordan. (JRD15, $24.95)
	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  •  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, $14.95)
	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)
	The White Nile  •  Alan Moorehead   • EXPLORATION  •  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. (EGY79, $14.95)
	Appointment with Death  •  Agatha Christie   • MYSTERY  •  First published in 1938, this is Christie's story of an American family on a grand tour of the Holy Land. Hercule Poirot steps into the story when the contentious wife is found murdered in Petra. (JRD02, $6.99)
	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)
	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 1920's Egyptian archaeology. Phillips deftly combines historical personages and events with wild invention. (EGY128, $13.95)
	The Yacoubian Building  •  Alaa Al Aswany   • LITERATURE  •  Hugely popular in Egypt, this short novel reflects contemporary society through the lives and fortunes of the inhabitants of a once elegant Art Deco building in Cairo. (EGY175, $13.95)
	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. A first-person account accompanies the photographs. (JRD06, $49.95)
	The Snorkeller's Guide to the Coral Reef, From the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean  •  Paddy Ryan  •  Peter Atkinson   • 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)
	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)

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