It was a blustery April morning on the Thames Embankment in London when Anne Mustoe set out on a phenomenal lone cycle ride - to the original site of Cleopatra's Needle at Heliopolis in Egypt. Leaving behind home comforts, she set herself the challenge of travelling close to water wherever possible - via the Seine and the Rhone, then alongside the Burgundy canal, the Po and the Venetian Lagoon. Before she would reach her final waterway - the evocative Nile - Ms Mustoe would encounter the dusty y...
The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources (Volume 1); In Two Volumes
by Sir Samuel White Baker
Egypt Moleskin (Lonely Planet Country Guides)
by Andrew Humphreys, Siona Jenkins, and Anthony Sattin
Sprachfuhrer Deutsch-AEgyptisch-Arabisch und thematischer Wortschatz mit 3000 Woertern
by Andrey Taranov
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.
Split into three areas - Cairo, the Nile Valley, and the Delta, this guide offers 51 detailed routes around Cairo and the ancient and modern sites of this country. There are also introductory articles on religion, art, architecture, history and natural history, as well as practical information. The book includes a colour street map of Cairo and an atlas and also offers hotel and resaurant lists for major cities.
"From Cairo to Beirut" is an illustrated travel memoir of the author's journey to retrace a 200-year-old route of Scottish artist David Roberts. Shinde traveled a route through Cairo, Sinai, Petra, Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon -- ancient lands steeped in natural beauty, culture, architecture, and history -- to sketch and discover a region far removed from the newspaper headlines. Many times, Shinde stood within a 10-foot radius of where Roberts stood, and sketched what he sketched. The book in...
Field Guide to the Mammals of Egypt
by Senior Instructor Richard Hoath