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Egypt

Visit Egypt for a multi-layered history lesson and a chance to see a country that has capitvated travellers since ancient times.

Browse our collection of Egypt 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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    A map of Egypt aimed specially at visitors interested in the country’s history and its archaeological heritage, with street plans, enlargements for mains sites and a chart of the dynasties of ancient E...
    • Publisher: Macmillan
    • Scale: 1:1,000,000
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    Beyond the Pyramids

    by Douglas Kennedy
    Douglas Kennedy's "Beyond the Pyramids" is a superb chronicle of travels through modern Egypt; a landscape strewn with incongruities and peopled by a vivid cast of characters.

    Their stories form...
    • Publisher: Abacus
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    The Lost Tombs of Thebes - Life in Paradise is a lavish, photographic collection celebrating the hundreds of unique and wonderfully decorated tombs uncovered in the Theban massif of southern Egypt....
    • Publisher: Thames & Hudson
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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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    Holy Smoke!

    by Jill Dudley
    Jill Dudley’s second book Holy Smoke! is another personal triumph. Jill Dudley sets out to explore the pagan past and early Christianity, as well as Judaism and Islam. Facts and legends abound as s...
    • Publisher: Orpington Publishers
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    Egypt - through writers' eyes

    by Deborah Manley & Sahar Abdel-Hakim
    Egypt - through writers’ eyes continues Eland’s tradition of unearthing forgotten classics of world travel-writing, with a fantastic selection of some of the best travel writing that Egypt has ever giv...
    • Publisher: Eland
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    Egypt on the double-sided, waterproof and tear-resistant, indexed map from ITMB, presenting the Nile Valley up to Luxor at 1:700,000, with the whole country shown on the reverse at 1:1,650,000. P...
    • Publisher: ITMB - International Travel Maps
    • Scale: 1:1,650,000/1:700,000
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    African Cities and Towns Street Atlas from Map Studio, South Africa’s leading map publishers, in an A4 paperback format with plans of central areas in all the continent’s capitals (except São Tomé and...
    • Publisher: Map Studio
    • Scale: various
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    Ottoman Empire

    by Jeffreys, Diarmuid
    Historical map of the Ottoman Empire from New Holland, that dominated territories across the Middle East, North Africa and south-eastern Europe. The map explores the steady expansion of the Empire...
    • Publisher: New Holland
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    In his “Liquid Continent” trilogy, Nicholas Woodsworth combines travel narrative, history and reflection of the essence of life in the Mediterranean.

    Beginning in Alexandria, the author travels...
    • Publisher: Haus Publishers Ltd
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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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