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From visits to those unmissable tombs and pyramids, to must-see museums and spectacular cruises down the Nile, Cairo is the place to base yourself for an Egyptian adventure. Dip into mosques and palaces or simply absorb the atmosphere in the city’s coffee houses and markets.

Browse our collection of Cairo guide books and maps below; our collection includes travel guides from renowned publishers as well as specialist, hard-to-find publications. We also feature recommended holiday reading and all your essential travel accessories.

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    The Yacoubian Building

    by Alaa Al Aswany
    Highly acclaimed upon its initial publication, Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impassioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a...
    • Publisher: Harper Perennial
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    Colette Rossant’s “Apricots on the Nile begins in 1937, when at just five years old Rossant arrived in Cairo from Paris with her Egyptian Jewish father and beautiful French mother.

    When her father...
    • Publisher: Bloomsbury
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    Cairo Street Plan from Editions Laure Kane, a colourful and informative map for visitors to the city, highlighting main places of interest, locations of various trades within the Khan el-Khalili bazaar...
    • Publisher: Laure Kane Editions
    • Scale: 1:15,500
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    Indexed street plan of Cairo from Freytag &n Berndt, covering a substantial part of the city, from the Zomor Canal road in the west to the Al-Ahzar University area in the west, and from the northern ti...
    • Publisher: Freytag-Berndt und Artaria KG
    • Scale: 1:10,000
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    Indexed map of central Cairo from Cartographia, with plans of central Alexandria, Heliopolis and Luxor, small plans of the three pyramid complexes around the city: Giza, Saqqara and Dahshur, plus an ov...
    • Publisher: Cartographia
    • Scale: 1:13,000
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    The Pocket Guide series from Berlitz are a collection of handy, pocket-sized guides dedicated to an extensive range of cities, regions and countries worldwide. Written in narrative form, individual...
    • Publisher: Berlitz
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    The Countries, Regions and Cities series from Rough Guides are comprehensively detailed guidebooks specifically designed for independent travellers and serve a range of destinations worldwide. W...
    • Publisher: Rough Guides
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    The Wallpaper City Guide series published by Phaidon encompasses a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine,...
    • Publisher: Phaidon
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    Eyewitness Top 10 from Dorling Kindersley is a condensed format guide book series featuring dozens of illustrated, top ten lists for the traveller regardless of their disposable budget. To save you...
    • Publisher: Dorling Kindersley
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    The Thomas Cook Pocket Guide series comprise a range of handy, pocket-sized guides covering a comprehensive range of international cities and regions. Each of the guides in the series identifies the...
    • Publisher: Thomas Cook Publishing
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    Cadogan guides cover a range of destinations – primarily in Europe - and combine solid research, detailed, practical information and individual points of view on a range of cities, regions and countrie...
    • Publisher: Cadogan Guides
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    The Cities of the Imagination guide series provides an in-depth cultural and historical exploration of some of the great city landscapes of the world. Presented as a cultural and literary guide, e...
    • Publisher: Signal
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