Search Results for ‘Red Sea’, ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’ - 11 matches found

Ancient Egypt

From renowned makers of children's reference books worldwide, comes the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness guide to Ancient Egypt. Travel back in time to this remarkable civilization and discover how ordinary...

Babar's World Tour

The latest from venerable storyteller and brilliant artist Laurent de Brunhoff has Babar's family on a world tour! They visit a number of countries around the globe.
First stop is Italy where they learn...

The Yacoubian Building

Highly acclaimed upon its initial publication, “The Yacoubian Building” is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impassioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a society dominated...

The Liquid Continent - Volume I - Alexandria

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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...

Egypt - through writers' eyes

“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...

Traveller's History of Egypt

“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...

Beyond the Pyramids

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...

In An Antique Land

"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...

Ancient Egypt Sticker Book

Learn about Ancient Egypt with this informative and fun sticker book from Dorling Kindersley, choose the stickers to create your own book of Egyptians.
This sticker book from the best selling Ultimate...

Sakkara and Memphis

Practical descriptions of the sites of the major antiquities of Sakkara and Memphis, including the Old Kingdom necropolis, with photographs and plans.

Apricots On The Nile - A Memoir with Recipes

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...