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Essential Books These 4 items are available for $70, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXEGY43)		  
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
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
The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt  •  Bill Manley
HISTORY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 144 PAGES
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, $20.00)		   The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
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)
 		  
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 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)
 		  
Ancient Egypt  •  David P. Silverman   • HISTORY  •  A lavishly illustrated book featuring the latest scholarship on Egyptian archaeology. With essays on topics including language, ritual and economy and 200 color photographs, maps and charts, it's an excellent reference book for the traveler's library. (EGY37, $24.99)
 		  
Cairo Illustrated  •  Michael Haag   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A warm, richly illustrated portrait of the city, featuring 125 color photographs of the people, monuments and attractions of Cairo alongside Michael Haag's insightful commentary. (EGY203, $22.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Imagining Egypt, A Living Portrait of the Time of the Pharaohs  •  Mark Millmore   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Millmore animates the history, culture and daily life of the people of ancient Egypt in this lively illustrated overview. The book is filled with original drawings and diagrams, color photographs, essays and stunning 3-D computer renderings. (EGY202, $24.95)
 		  
Inside Egypt  •  John R. Bradley   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A reporter in the region since 1999, Bradley pulls no punches in this highly readable expose of the politics and policies of Mubarak's military and modern Egypt. (EGY261, $16.00)
 		  
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 Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt  •  Richard Wilkinson   • HISTORY  •  This superbly illustrated survey covers Egyptian temple life from construction of the monuments to society, religious rites, festivals and discovery. (EGY238, $39.95)
 		  
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 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)
 		  
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, $30.50)
 		  
The Complete Pyramids  •  Mark Lehner   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  A fully illustrated compendium of every major pyramid in Egypt by the director of the Giza mapping project. With 450 maps, photographs, reconstructions and site diagrams. (EGY33, $26.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Apricots on the Nile, A Memoir with Recipes  •  Colette Rossant   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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)
 		  
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  •  Aciman transports us to Alexandria and the richly imagined world of his eccentric, polyglot Jewish family in this dazzling memoir. (EGY19, $17.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
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, $12.99)
 		  
Karnak Cafe  •  Naguib Mahfouz   • LITERATURE  •  In this gripping and suspenseful novella from the Egyptian Nobel Prize-winner, three young friends survive interrogation by the secret police, only to find their lives poisoned by suspicion, fear and betrayal. (EGY245, $13.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
 
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