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Suggested Reading READING GUIDE Egypt Here is a brief selection of favorite, new and hard-to-find books, prepared for your journey. For your convenience, you may call (800) 342-2164 to order these books directly from Longitude, a specialty mail-order book service. To order online, and to get the latest, most comprehensive selection of books for your voyage, go directly to Egypt Reading Guide Essential Reading Package-EXEGY172 National Geographic Maps Egypt Adventure Map EGYPT. Buy these 5 items as a set for $85 EGY174 | 2011 | 2 pages | MAP including shipping, 15% off the retail price. With free Buy Package shipping on anything else you order. A double-sided folded map of Egypt by the National Geographic Society and World Mapping Project at a Toby Wilkinson scale of 1:1,250,000. The Nile $11.95 EGY409 | 2015 | 320 pages | PAPER Jailan Zayan Renowned Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson guides readers through Egyptian history on a Nile River Culture Smart! Egypt journey. Readers are swept from the river’s mythical EGY196 | 2013 | 168 pages | PAPER sources to famous historical and cultural sites all the way to Cairo. A handy pocket guide to understanding local customs and etiquette. $17.95 $9.95 Harry Ades Bill Manley A Traveller's History of Egypt Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners EGY180 | 2006 | 452 pages | PAPER EGY398 | 2003 | 160 pages | PAPER This effectively condensed chronological history takes in the full sweep from the earliest inhabitants to 21st Museum-goers and armchair travelers alike can gain a century politics. basic knowledge of the language and culture of ancient Egypt with this excellent step-by-step guide to $14.95 decoding tomb scenes and inscriptions. With illustrations, photographs, a handy list of kings and Bill Manley gods and vocabulary. The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt $16.95 EGY54 | 1996 | 144 pages | PAPER Farouk El-Baz Ingenious color maps, site plans, photographs and accompanying essays trace Egyptian civilization from Say It in Arabic (Egyptian) the founding of Memphis through the sacking of ARB54 | 1968 | 185 pages | PAPER Thebes and the invasion by Alexander the Great in 332 BC. A guide to common words and phrases in the widely spoken Cairo dialect. $21.00 $4.95 Eyewitness Guides William J. Murnane Eyewitness Guide Egypt The Ancient Egypt Guide EGY90 | 2016 | 360 pages | PAPER EGY50 | 2012 | 528 pages | PAPER This visually rich guide to the history, culture and monuments of Egypt includes 1,000 color With sections on history, individual sites and practical photographs, maps and 3D site diagrams. details, this new edition of the classic Penguin Guide to Ancient Egypt has been thoroughly updated by $25.00 Aidan Dodson. Cartographia $25.00 Egypt Map Dan Richardson EGY03 | 2013 | 2 pages | MAP The Rough Guide to Egypt With insets of Luxor-El Karnak and Cairo, this color EGY429 | 2013 | 649 pages | PAPER map of all Egypt features major roadways, major sights, airports and places of interest. Scaled at A comprehensive guide to Egypt in the somewhat hip, 1:1,000,000. literate and very infomative Rough Guide style. It's divided cleanly between practical information and $12.95 illuminating background on culture and history. $25.99 Buy Package Bob Brier Ancient Egypt, Everyday Life in the Land of the Also Recommended Nile EGY405 | 2013 | 312 pages | HARD COVER Cartographia An accessible overview of daily life in Egypt -- how Cairo Map common people worked, lived, played and worshiped. EGY163 | 2007 | 2 pages | MAP Part of Sterling's "Everyday Life" series. A colorful, folded map of Cairo on thick paper. Insets $17.95 of Luxor, Alexandria and Heliopolis. Scale 1:13,000. $9.95 To order, go to: Egypt or call 800-342-2164 READING GUIDE Egypt Ahmed Abul Ella Michael Haag By Way of Accident: The True Stories Behind the Luxor Illustrated, With Aswan, Abu Simbel and the Discovery of Egypt's Greatest Monuments Nile EGY432 | 2016 | 322 pages | PAPER EGY277 | 2009 | 96 pages | PAPER Taking readers back to the birth of Egyptology, this The ideal companion to a Nile cruise, Haag introduces history chronicles the turbulent political climate in all the famous monuments and temples of Upper which it arose as well as its famous accidental Egypt from Luxor, Karnak, the Valley of the Kings and discoveries, from the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone the tomb of Tutankhamun to the marvels of Aswan to the excavation of well-known monuments. and Abu Simbel in full color. $14.99 $22.95 Tarek Osman Geraldine Brooks Egypt on the Brink Nine Parts of Desire, The Hidden World of Islamic EGY371 | 2013 | 300 pages | PAPER Women Osman brings his thoroughly readable history of ARB06 | 1996 | 256 pages | PAPER divided, complex modern Egypt since the rise of A highly readable overview of the role of women in Nassar up to date with the events of the Arab Spring, Islamic society, drawn from the author's many the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the rise of the Muslim interviews with women throughout the Arab World. Brotherhood and current uncertainty. $15.95 $18.00 Andrew Humphreys Robert L. Tignor On the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel Egypt, A Short History EGY422 | 2015 | 216 pages | HARD COVER EGY370 | 2011 | 371 pages | PAPER Colorfully illustrated, this history celebrates centuries Princeton historian Tignor distills five decades of study of travel down the Nile, from the earliest trips in a and travel for this vivid account of the sweep and dahabiya (houseboat with sails) through Thomas tumult of Egyptian history from the settlement of the Cook’s paddle steamers to modern cruise ships. Nile to the present. Includes period photographs, vintage posters and $22.95 promotional materials. $34.95 Bob Brier Egypt-Omania Robin Wright EGY407 | 2013 | 229 pages | HARD COVER Rock the Casbah, Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World Bob Brier, AKA "Mr. Mummy," informs and entertains in this wide-ranging exploration of Egyptology's ISL100 | 2012 | 307 pages | PAPER cultural influence -- from the Romans' fascination with A veteran journalist in the Middle East, Wright the ancient culture to the transportation of Egyptian (Dreams and Shadows) interviews the youth at the obelisks to Paris, New York and London to Tin Pan forefront of the Arab revolt in this insightful portrait of Alley songs featuring King Tut and Cleopatra. the region at a moment of change. $27.00 $17.00 Tim Jeal Alan Moorehead Explorers of the Nile The Blue Nile AFR287 | 2012 | 592 pages | PAPER EGY67 | 2000 | 320 pages | PAPER Tim Jeal widens his scope in this spirited new history In this grand history of exploration and events on the of the great 19th-century quest for the origins of the great river from 1798 to 1869, Moorehead follows the Nile, covering the many expeditions and complex course of the Blue Nile from the Ethiopian highlands rivalries of Burton and Speke, Livingstone and Stanley through Sudan and Egypt to the Mediterranean. and other Victorian adventurers with panache. $14.99 $18.50 Steven Snape Zahi Hawass, Mark Lehner The Complete Cities of Ancient Egypt Giza and the Pyramids, The Definitive History EGY415 | 2014 | 240 pages | HARD COVER EGY434 | 2016 | 560 pages | HARD COVER A comprehensive overview of settlements during Unparalleled in detail and scope, this coffee table Egypt’s dynastic period, including Memphis, Thebes history of the pyramids of Giza provides up-to-date and Amarna. information and special insights into lingering $50.00 questions. The book features hundreds of illustrations as well as site plans, reconstructions and aerial Martin Dugard photographs. The Explorers, A Story of Fearless Outcasts, $75.00 Blundering Geniuses, and Impossible Success John R. Bradley EGY413 | 2014 | 288 pages | HARD COVER Inside Egypt Bestselling author Martin Dugard argues that all fearless explorers share seven key traits, providing as EGY261 | 2012 | 256 pages | PAPER a case study the Burton-Speke expedition to find the A reporter in the region since 1999, Bradley pulls no source of the Nile. punches in this highly readable expose of the politics $26.00 and policies of Mubarak's military and modern Egypt. $24.99 To order, go to: Egypt or call 800-342-2164 READING GUIDE Egypt Christopher de Bellaigue E. M. Forster The Islamic Enlightenment, The Struggle Between Alexandria, A History and Guide Faith and Reason, 1798 to Modern Times EGY412 | 2014 | 320 pages | PAPER ISL124 | 2017 | 560 pages | HARD COVER In this first-rate travelogue, Forester immortalizes the With a fresh perspective on the major Islamic fabled city of Alexander the Great, the beacon of light countries in the modern era, this authoritative work and culture symbolized by the greatest library of the charts the reformations that began growing in Istanbul, ancient world and the place where Antony and Cairo and Tehran in the 19th century and continue Cleopatra played out their doomed love affair. today. Originally published in 1922. $35.00 $18.00 Joann Fletcher Peter Stothard The Story of Egypt Alexandria, The Last Nights of Cleopatra EGY431 | 2017 | 496 pages | PAPER EGY406 | 2014 | 400 pages | PAPER Fletcher's lively tableau of ancient Egypt is filled with Times editor Peter Stothard explores Egypt and the 4,000 years of stories and epic individuals. Her history life of Cleopatra in this book, part memoir and part unveils recently discovered facts about the women travel literature. Stothard revisits places he had known pharaohs, the ancestor of the Suez Canal and many as a child, wanders Egypt on the brink of revolution more exciting discoveries from Egyptology. and walks in the footsteps of Cleopatra. $17.95 $18.95 Steven Cook Rosemary Mahoney The Struggle for Egypt, From Nasser to Tahrir Down the Nile, Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff Square EGY207 | 2008 | 273 pages | PAPER EGY389 | 2013 | 456 pages | PAPER In this marvelously engaging chronicle, Mahoney The Hasib J.
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