The Boehm Journey to Egypt, Land of Tutankhamun
by Frank J Cosentino
Riding the Desert Trail (Ulverscroft Large Print) (Abacus Books)
by Bettina Selby
This travel book offers a description of a lone bicycle journey along the River Nile from the Mediterranean to the heartlands of Africa. Bettina Selby is a grandmother in her fifties who took up long-distance bicycling after her children had left home. Travelling alone on her "all-terrain bicycle", she met a wide variety of people, from Western aid officials and hospitable Arabs to warring Sudanese. She tells of the adventures which befall a solitary traveller in remote and war-torn countries. H...
Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Mysteries of Amenta
by Gerald Massey
Democracy is the Answer - Egypt`s Years of Revolution
by Alaa Al Aswany
As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it - and try to push it in productive directions - than best-selling novelist and political commentator Alba Al Aswany. For years a leading critic of the Mubarak regime, Al Aswany used his weekly newspaper column for Al-Masry Al-Youm to propound the revolution's ideals and to confront the increasingly troubled politics of its aftermath. This book presents, for the first time in E...
Introduces the history and culture of Egypt and discusses Egypt's position in the politics of the Middle East today.
Discovery Guide to Cairo, the Pyramids and Saqqara (Discovery guide)
by Michael Haag
Explores the sights of Cairo, both world famous and unfamiliar. Including Islamic heritage and comprehensive travel tips for the discerning tourist, this guidebook provides a delightful and absorbing tour of the city and regional sites.
Travellers in Egypt (Tauris Parke Paperback S.)
Offering a study of travellers in Egypt, the contributions to this book encompass early travellers, those with a serious scientific or archaeological interest, those whose primary interest was artistic and literary, and those - including Flaubert - who wrote classic works of European literature based on their experiences. A whole section is devoted to E.W. Lane, not only for the importance of his writings, but also because of the criticism which he has received in the "orientalism" debate and wh...
This book has been prepared for the use of visitors to the monuments of Upper Egypt, that is to say, all those situated between Balianeh, the southernmost town of Middle Egypt, and Adendan, the last Egyptian village on this side of the Sudan frontier. The majority of visitors, after leaving Cairo and its neighbourhood, do not make more than one or two excursions in Middle Egypt; and the fact that the writer had not the opportunity to describe the ancient sites between Cairo and Balianeh, will no...
