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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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These 5 items are available
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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXNAF68) |
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Lonely Planet Libya
• Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
This practical guide in the popular series features essential information for getting around, as well as plenty of details on sightseeing and several maps.
(NAF18, $25.99) |
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Culture Smart! Libya
• Roger Jones
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 168 PAGES
A concise and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture.
(NAF62, $9.95) |
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A Traveller's History of North Africa
• Barnaby Rogerson
HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 408 PAGES
Wide-ranging, accessible and effectively condensed, this brief history marches confidently through the centuries, covering key events and personalities in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria to 1999.
(NAF01, $15.95) |
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A Cure for Serpents
• Alberto di Pirajno
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
An eye-witness account of the people, cultures and life in North Africa in the 1920s and 1930s by The Duke of Pirajno, who served as Italian ambassador in Libya, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somaliland. He writes with candor and grace of everyday life and culture of the region, along with the chieftains and courtesans Berber princes and Tuareg entertainers.
(NAF49, $33.95) |
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Libya Map
• ITMB
2006 •
MAP
This full-color detailed traveler's map (at a scale of 1:2,650,000) shows not only roads, but also tracks, railways, archaeological sites and oil and gas pipelines. With an inset street plan of Tripoli, shaded relief showing topography, index, glossary of Arab terms and travel information. Printed on waterproof, tear-resistant paper. One Side. 27x39 inches.
(NAF32, $10.95) |
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Also Recommended
A History of Modern Libya
• Dirk Vandewalle
• HISTORY
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A professor of government at Dartmouth, Vanderwalle presents an authoritative history of Libya from the 1900s through the Italian colonial period, monarchy and rule by Qadhafi since the 1969 revolution.
(NAF41, $31.99)
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A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period
• Jamil Abun-Nasr
• HISTORY
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An authoritative, scholarly history of North Africa from the seventh century until independence, covering the Berber dynasties, Ottoman rule, colonial period and independence.
(NAF31, $72.00)
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Islam, A Short History
• Karen Armstrong
• HISTORY
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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. The best short introduction to the subject.
(ISL15, $15.95)
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Islam, The Straight Path
• John L. Esposito
• RELIGION
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A well-written survey of the faith, practice and beliefs of Islam. It's a balanced tone intended for an undergraduate audience, yet it also functions as an excellent overview for the general reader.
(MDE22, $49.95)
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Lion of the Desert
• Moustapha Akkad
• HISTORY
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Oliver Reed and Anthony Quin star in this epic tale of guerila leader Omar Mukhtar and his struggle to stop the conquest of Libya.
(NAF80, $14.95)
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Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Rome
• Christopher Scarre
• HISTORY
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A vivid overview of the rise and fall of the Roman Empire and its expansion throughout North Africa and the Mediterranean, illustrated with ingenious color maps on many topics (political borders, trade, defense, religion) and 80 color photographs.
(ITL29, $18.00)
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Rome in Africa
• Susan Raven
• HISTORY
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Long the standard history of Roman influence in Northern Africa, this book is scholarly and comprehensive. It is a wonderfully written, illustrated introduction to the geographic setting, the rise of Carthage, historical personalities, individual trading centers and archaeological sites.
(NAF04, $49.95)
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The Berbers
• Michael Brett
• Elizabeth Fentress
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A comprehensive overview of the indigenous people of North Africa from antiquity through the Roman and Islamic periods to modern times. It surveys the history, literature and culture of the Berbers, exploring the identity they have forged in the region.
(NAF02, $49.95)
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The Conquest of the Sahara
• Douglas Porch
• HISTORY
• COMING IN
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Porch captures the ambition, drama and folly of French 19th-century adventurers in North Africa in this classic history, first published in 1986.
(NAF37, $23.00)
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The Lost Oasis, The Desert War and the Hunt for Zerzura
• Saul Kelly
• HISTORY
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A well-researched, detailed account of exploration of the Libyan desert in the 1920s and 1930s -- and the subsequent Long Range Desert Group.
(NAF21, $16.95)
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Southern Frontiers, A Journey Across the Roman Empire
• Don McCullin
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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Roman sites, both world famous and obscure, from Syria and Lebanon across North Africa to Morocco, Algeria and Libya are presented in gorgeous black-and-white splendor in this collection of oversized photographs by the celebrated Don McCullin. Historian Barnaby Rogerson supplies the accompanying text.
(MED172, $69.95)
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The North African Stones Speak
• Paul Lachlan MacKendrick
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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MacKendrick's lively history explores the life and culture of the North African provinces of Rome as revealed by its archaeology. With 60 pages on settlements and cities in ancient Cyrenaica and Tripolitania, including site plans and black-and-white photographs of Shahat, Apollonia, Leptis Magna and Fezzan.
(NAF51, $47.50)
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Sahara Unveiled, A Journey across the Desert
• William Langewiesche
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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Traveling across the Sahara from Algiers to Dakar, Langeweische has written an uncommonly good memoir of the desert, with meditations on its history, inhabitants and allure.
(NAF05, $16.00)
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The Adventures of Ibn Battuta, A Muslim Traveler of the 14th Century
• Ross E. Dunn
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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A modern historian's account of Ibn Battuta's travels in the medieval Islamic world. When Battuta left his native Morocco in 1325, he intended a pilgrimage to Mecca; however his travels ultimately took him as far as Mali in the west and Malaysia in the east, stopping in China, the Middle East, and Africa en route.
(AFR103, $25.95)
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Wind, Sand and Stars
• Antoine de Saint Exupery
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• FAVORITE
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St. Exupery's luminous account of flying early postal routes over South America, Europe and the deserts of North Africa in the 1930s includes the classic tale of his crash in the Libyan desert.
(DES11, $13.95)
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In the Country of Men
• Hisham Matar
• LITERATURE
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This hauntingly beautiful short novel, set in Tripoli in wake of Khadafy's 1969 revolution, shows the bewilderment and fear of the Libyan people through the eyes of a nine-year-old boy.
(NAF53, $15.00)
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Leo Africanus
• Amin Maalouf
• LITERATURE
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A fictional memoir of the first 40 years in the life of Leo Africanus, a Muslim whose travels led him throughout the Mediterranean and North Africa in the 15th and 16th centuries.
(MED55, $16.95)
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The English Patient
• Michael Ondaatje
• LITERATURE
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Ondaatje's luminous novel, even better than the movie, unfolds at a villa in Tuscany and in the North African desert during World War II.
(ITL703, $15.95)
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Sahara, The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert
• Sheila Hirtle
• Marq de Villiers
• NATURAL HISTORY
• COMING IN
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A chronicle of the geography, history and nature of the Sahara. The authors combine travelogue, science and archaeology in this informative report.
(NAF13, $14.00)
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Birds of the Middle East
• Richard Porter
• Simon Aspinall
• FIELD GUIDE
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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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