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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: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
“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: | Douglas Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 42709 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back 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: | 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...
The Liquid Continent - Volume I - Alexandria
| Author: | Nicholas Woodsworth |
| Publisher: | Haus Publishers Ltd |
| Catalogue number: | 163402 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
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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...
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