Alexandria has had a checkered history since its foundation by Alexander the Great in 331 B.C. From its glorious days as the intellectual center of the Hellenistic and early Christian world...more details Format:Paperback Pages:80
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Michael Haag
ISBN:9781860640377
The author, who has lived in Alexandria, and has known Lawrence Durrell and others who lived there during its cosmopolitan heyday, retraces their footsteps to present an account of the places and the people of this most remarkable of cities. In the decades before Nasser's seizure of power and the Suez crisis...more details Format:Hardback
Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis of eighteen million people that nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world...more details Format:Hardback Pages:95
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Michael Haag
ISBN:9781566567947
Discover three sides of ancient, modern, exciting Egypt: exuberant Cairo, astonishing Luxor, and relaxed, timeless Aswan. With comprehensive listings and an entertaining narrative...more details Format:Paperback Pages:368
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Michael Haag
ISBN:9781860111655
Enjoy Egypt's three great cities with Cadogan's unique guide. It's the ideal companion for either a three-destination break or exploring the cities individually....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Michael Haag
ISBN:9781860111631
Hieroglyphics, pyramids, pharaohs--all icons for which Egypt is rightly famous. But with the help of this fully updated guide from Cadogan, travelers will discover that Egypt's living present is just as exciting as its fascinating past. Cairo may be one of the world's finest medieval cities...more details Format:Paperback Pages:528
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Michael Haag
ISBN:9781566567961
Eminent Egypt chronicler, Michael Haag, takes you on a journey down the Nile, past Cairo's fine medieval architecture and gleaming skyscrapers to the extraordinary temples of Luxor and Karnak and the breathtaking tombs at the Valley of the Kings...more details Format:Paperback Pages:544
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Michael Haag
ISBN:9789774163128
Luxor stands on the site of ancient Thebes, Egypt's opulent New Kingdom capital. It encompasses the spectacular temples of Luxor and Karnak on the east bank of the Nile...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:96
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Michael Haag
ISBN:9781843535171
Dan Brown's thriller The Da Vinci Code has created an extraordinary Christian controversy, with its sub-plots of the feminine in religion, the bloodline of Christ...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
The new exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs offers a unique insight into the art, wealth and power of Egypt's New Kingdom. "The Rough Guide to Tutankahmun" provides all the background...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
Dan Brown's new thriller The Lost Symbol is the biggest global publishing phenomenon since his runaway bestseller The Da Vinci Code. The new adventures of mystery-solving Professor of Symbology...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Michael Haag
ISBN:9781846681530
An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two centuries later...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:384
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Michael Haag
ISBN:9789774161926
Using vintage photographs from the second half of the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth, many of them from private family albums...more details Format:Hardback Pages:139
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Michael Haag;Michael Von Haag
ISBN:9780300104158
This book is a literary, social, and political portrait of Alexandria at a high point of its history. Drawing on diaries, letters, and interviews...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:384
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Michael Curotto;John Haag SteveAldridge
ISBN:9781423409236
Move over guitar collectors, it's time to give the drummers some ink. One of the world's most valuable collections of vintage snare drums is presented in this beautiful...more details Format:Hardback Pages:188