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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)
	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)
	Think Like an Egyptian, 100 Hieroglyphs  •  Barry Kemp LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •  2005 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES Here's a short book that will help you understand the ancient Egyptian language. Take it along if you'd like to learn to read the hieroglyphs. (EGY25, $15.00)
	Egypt Map  •   Freytag & Berndt 2008 •  MAP • BEST SELLER At a 1:1,000,000 scale, this map covers all of Egypt as well as much of Israel, including Jerusalem. It shows roads and shaded relief, and includes detailed renderings of archaeological sites. With a map of the Nile on the reverse showing Thebes, Alexandria, and the location of some important archaeological sites. Two Sides. 49x34 inches. (EGY03, $12.95)

	Cairo Map  •   National Geographic    •  A handy laminated traveler's map of Cairo. (EGY163, $8.99)
	Culture Smart! Egypt  •  Jailan Zayan   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy pocket guide to understanding local customs and etiquette. (EGY196, $9.95)
	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)
	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 Traveller's History of Egypt  •  Harry Ades   • HISTORY  •  This effectively condensed, brief 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)
	Chronicle of the Pharaohs, The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt  •  Peter A. Clayton   • HISTORY  •  This book will help you to sort out who's who in ancient Egypt, what they built, what they did and what they looked like. It contains 350 illustrations, many in color. (EGY32, $24.95)
	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)
	The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt  •  Bill Manley   • HISTORY • BEST SELLER  •  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. (EGY54, $18.00)
	Egypt Eternal  •   National Geographic   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Two National Geographic programs on the archaeology of ancient Egypt on DVD: Egypt Eternal, Quest for the Lost Tombs and Egypt, Secrets of the Pharaohs. (EGY136, $19.98)
	The Art of Ancient Egypt  •  Gay Robins   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Organized chronologically, this authoritative survey of the tombs, temples and sanctuaries of ancient Egypt features 300 illustrations. (EGY52, $27.95)
	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)
	Out of Egypt, A Memoir  •  Andre Aciman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The flamboyant history of the author's Jewish family in Alexandria over three generations. (EGY19, $16.00)
	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)
	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)

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