The Nile : downriver through Egypt's past and present /
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Egypt is the most populous country in the world's most unstable region. It is the key to Middle East peace, the voice of the Arab world and the crossroads between Europe and Africa. Its historical and strategic importance is unparalleled. In short, Egypt matters. And the key to Egypt - its colourful past, chaotic present and uncertain future - is the Nile. From Herodotus's day to the present political upheavals, the steady flow of the Nile has been Egypt's heartbeat. It has shaped its geography, controlled its economy and moulded its civilisation. The same stretch of water which conveyed Pharaonic battleships, Ptolemaic grain ships, Roman troop-carriers and Victorian steamers today carries modern-day tourists past bankside settlements in which rural life - fishing, farming, flooding - continues much as it has for millennia. At this most critical juncture in the country's history, foremost Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes us on a journey up the Nile, north from Lake Victoria, from Cataract to Cataract, past the Aswan Dam, to the delta.
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xv, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 24 cm. :
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Description of Egypt : notes and views in Egypt and Nubia, made during the years 1825, -26, -27, and -28 : chiefly consisting of a series of descriptions and delineations of the mo...
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xxxii, 588 pages : illustrations (some folded), maps (some folded) ; 24 cm :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 581-588) compiled by the editor. :
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Belzoni's travels : narrative of the operations and recent discoveries in Egypt and Nubia /
: "Originally published in Italy in 2001 by Geodia": Title pages verso. : 336 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 36 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-334) and index. : 0714119407
Frédéric Cailliaud : les aventures d'un naturaliste en Egypte et au Soudan, 1815-1822 /
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Spine title : Les aventures d'un naturaliste en Egypte et au Soudan : Frederic Cailliaud. :
371 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. :
Bibliography : pages 363-365. :
2867230342 :
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Erinnerungen an meine Reise nach dem Sudan und nach Ägypten, Februar-März 1911 /
: Facsim. repr., orig. publ. Dresden : Konigl. Sachs. Hofbuchh. H. Burdach, Warnatz, & Lehmann, 1912 Friedrich August III-King of Saxony-1865-1932-Travel-Sudan. : 85 pages :chiefly photos, color map ; 30 cm. : 9783897543317