Ancient Roads of Syria & Jordan   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $61, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXMDE94)		  
Syria, A Historical and Architectural Guide  •  Warwick Ball
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 254 PAGES
With dozens of site plans, maps and a section of color photographs, Wawick Ball's compact handbook covers Syria's wealth of archaeological sites in authoritative detail. An archaeologist, Ball conveys the immense history of the ancient trading city of Damascus, perhaps the world's oldest and "already an important city when the Romans conquered it." (SYR06, $19.95)		   Syria, A Historical and Architectural Guide
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 Bread of Angels  •  Stephanie Saldana
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2011 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
Ostensibly in Syria to study the Muslim Jesus on a Fulbright, the 26-year-old Stephanie Saldana seeks solace at a desert monastery, reads the Quran with a prominent woman scholar (a chic Shiekha), teaches at a madras -- and falls in love. Her remarkably candid memoir, full of memorable characters, is also a portrait of life in the old Christian neighborhood in Damascus, where she found a room in a crumbling courtyard complex off Straight Street (the most beautiful house in Bab Touma). (SYR20, $15.00)		   The Bread of Angels
Jordan & Syria Map  •  International Travel Maps
2010 •  MAP
This regional map shows Jordan, Israel and surroundings on one side (1:700,000) with Syria (1:850:000) on the reverse. Two Sides. 27x34 inches. (MDE14, $12.95)		   Jordan & Syria Map



Also Recommended

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)
 		  
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)
 		  
Live from Jordan, Letters Home from My Journey through the Middle East  •  Benjamin Orbach   • HISTORY  •  Orbach's down-to-earth, eyewitness report of daily life, attitudes and politics in Jordan. (JRD25, $22.00)
 		  
Roman Arabia  •  G.W. Bowersock   • HISTORY  •  A remarkable history of the Romans in the Arab world. For the traveler with scholarly inclinations, this lucid book provides essential background to the Roman archaeological sites in the Middle East. (MDE12, $29.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Eothen  •  Alexander William Kinglake   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Originally published in 1844, this sly account of journeys throughout the Middle East and Asia Minor, including Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Damascus and Petra takes the form and tone of a letter to a good friend: conversational, ironic, hugely funny and personal. (MDE24, $21.00)
 		  
Lawrence of Arabia  •  Liddell Hart   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A lively biography of T. E. Shaw (a.k.a. Lawrence of Arabia), long the standard. With 17 photos and ten maps. (JRD07, $18.95)
 		  
Married to a Bedouin  •  Marguerite Van Geldermalsen   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  "Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight -- in my cave?" Thus begins the fascinating odyssey of a young nurse from New Zealand who would marry and raise her family among the community of 100 Bedouin families living in the ancient city of Petra. (JRD35, $16.95)
 		  
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 Language of Baklava  •  Diana Abu-Jaber   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this evocative culinary memoir, the Jordanian-American novelist recalls growing up with her gregarious, homesick Jordanian father, who cooked to remember the place he came from and to pass that connection to his children. With one recipe per chapter. (JRD22, $14.95)
 		  
Walking the Bible, A Journey by Land through the Five Books of Moses  •  Bruce Feiler   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An account of a 10,000-mile trek through the Biblical lands of the Middle East in the company of an Israeli archaeologist. It's part travelogue, part pilgrimage, and part quest for religious meaning. (MDE50, $14.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist  •  Dorothy Gilman   • MYSTERY  •  Mrs. Pollifax must smuggle a manuscript out of Jordan, a document that encodes the shocking truth of Saddam Hussein's reign. (JRD32, $7.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
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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