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Egyptian Odyssey   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Eyewitness Guide Egypt  •   Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 352 PAGES
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)
  Eyewitness Guide Egypt
The Search for Ancient Egypt  •  Jean Vercoutter
ARCHAEOLOGY •  1992 •  PAPER  • 207 PAGES • BEST SELLER • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A pocket-size 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 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, $16.95)
  The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt
Egypt Map  •   Freytag & Berndt
2008 •  MAP
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. (EGY03, $12.95)
  Egypt Map
 

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Cairo Map  •   National Geographic    •  A handy laminated map of Cairo. (EGY163, $8.99)
 
 
Culture Smart! Egypt  •  Jailan Zayan   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handy pocket guide to understanding local customs, etiquette and culture. (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)
 
 
Think Like an Egyptian, 100 Hieroglyphs  •  Barry Kemp   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Here's a short book that will help you understand the ancient Egyptian language. (EGY25, $15.00)
 
 
Apricots on the Nile, A Memoir With Recipes  •  Collette Rossant   • FOOD  •  Rossant's piquant 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)
 
 
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, $22.95)
 
 
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, $14.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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 jammed with original drawings and diagrams, color photographs, essays and stunning 3-D computer renderings. (EGY202, $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 Art of Ancient Egypt  •  Gay Robins   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An overview of 3,000 years of Egyptian art. Organized chronologically, the book features 300 illustrations in color and black and white of sculptures, reliefs and other artifacts. (EGY52, $25.50)
 
 
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  •  With Edwardian river travelers as her inspiration, Mahoney hires a rowboat and sets forth on a 120-mile journey in this engaging tale. (EGY207, $23.99)
 
 
Out of Egypt, A Memoir  •  Andre Aciman   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The flamboyant history of the author's Jewish family in Alexandria over three generations. (EGY19, $15.00)
 
 
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit, My 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, $25.95)
 
 
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, $15.95)
 
 
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, A Novel  •  Alaa Al Aswany   • LITERATURE  •  This short novel, hugely popular in Egypt, reflects contemporary Egypt through the lives and fortunes of the inhabitants of a once elegant Art Deco building in downtown Cairo. (EGY175, $13.95)
 
 


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