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| Publisher: | Eland |
| Catalogue number: | 161164 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“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...
| Author: | Harry Adès |
| Publisher: | Chastleton Travel |
| Catalogue number: | 147588 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock email, weborders@stanfords.co.uk |
“A Traveller’s History of Egypt” communicates the magic of the pharaohs alongside a level-headed discussion of Islam for the benefit of modern travellers. This book does not just concentrate on the...
| Author: | Jill Dudley |
| Publisher: | Orpington Publishers |
| Catalogue number: | 161433 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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 she...
| Author: | Amitav Ghosh |
| Publisher: | Granta Books |
| Catalogue number: | 71375 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
"In an Antique Land" is a wonderfully subversive biography of Egypt from the Crusades to Operation Desert Storm.
In the 1980s Amitav Ghosh moved into a converted chicken coop. It was on the roof of...
| Author: | Douglas Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 42709 |
| Availability: | Special order: usually dispatched within 10 days |
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 part...
| Author: | Alaa Al Aswany |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Catalogue number: | 159354 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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...
The Liquid Continent - Volume I - Alexandria
| Author: | Nicholas Woodsworth |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 163402 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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 overland...
Apricots On The Nile - A Memoir with Recipes
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury |
| Catalogue number: | 103248 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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...
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John Simpson, the renowned BBC world affairs editor,visited Stanfords in London to discuss his new book - Not Quite World’s End. John has graced our screens for 40 years in a career that has seen him reporting from the front line in various war-torn parts of the world...
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Most memorable Christmas Day? Luxor, 1974. Up very early to hire bicycles and cross the Nile on a rickety ferry. Leisurely cycle ride across the fields, past the Colossi of Memnon, the Ramesseum and Hatshepsut's Temple, and up to the Valley of the Kings.
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