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New York: Anchor Books / Doubleday , 1961 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Thus. Vintage reprint of classic travel book originally published in Alexandria in 1922 which included the first appearance in English of C.P.Cavafy's poem "The God Abandons Anthony" [p. 104 ] translated George Valassopoulos. 243p. maps. index. Neat, tight unmarked text, paper covers age toned, else fine.
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Alexandria : A History and a Guide. Introduction by Lawrence Durrell.
by Forster, E.M.
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Alexandria Illustrated
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Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 2004 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Written and photographed by Michael Haag.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, it declined into a near-forgotten backwater with a population of only a few thousand at the time of the French invasion of 1798. Renewed prosperity and commercial growth came in the nineteenth century under Muhammad'All. Today it is Egypt's second city and the favorite summer resort of millions of Egyptians. In this guide to one of the world's great cities, Michael Haag explores Alexandria's past and present in word and picture, from the ancient Pharos to the new Bibliotheca Alexandrina, from Anfushi to Montazah. He directs our curiosity not only toward the ancient monuments of the city and its fine Greco-Roman Museum and new National Museum, but also to the ambience of a…
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Cavafy's Alexandria
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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996 Book. As New. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy"s literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 224p. bibliography.index.
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Cavafy's Alexandria: Study of a Myth in Progress
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Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition.. C. P. Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, lived in Alexandria for all but a few of his seventy years. Alexandria became, for Cavafy, a central poetic metaphor and eventually a myth encompassing the entire Greek world. In this, the first full-length critical work on Cavafy in English, Keeley describes Cavafy' literary progress and aesthetic development in the making of that myth. 196p. bibliography.index.
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The Copts in Cyprus
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Cairo: Imprimerie De L'institut Francais D'archeologie Orientale, 1942 Book. Fair > Good. Original Wraps. Off-Print.. "Extrait du Bulletin de la Societe d'Archeologie Copte t.VII (1941) " pp9-13 Off-print from journal, text complete but pages and paper cover damaged [ WorldCat entry lists NO copies found] .
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From the Holy Mountain : A Journey in the Shadow of Byzantium.
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London: Flamingo, 1997 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Reprint.. In 587 AD, two monks set off on an extraordinary journey that would take them in an arc across the entire Byzantine world, from the shores of the Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. On the way John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist stayed in caves, monasteries, and remote hermitages, collecting the wisdom of the stylites and the desert fathers before their fragile world finally shattered under the great eruption of Islam. More than a thousand years later, using Moschos's writings as his guide, William Dalrymple sets off to retrace their footsteps and composes "an evensong for a dying civilization" --"Kirkus Reviews," 483p. plates (some col) maps on endpapers. bibliography.index.
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Journeying : Travels in Italy,Egypt,Sinai,Jerusalem and Cyprus
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Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1975 Book. Illus. by Trans. Theodora Vasils & Themi Vasils. Very Good. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... Essays on various places (Italy, Egypt,Sinai, Jerusalem,Cyprus) that Kazantzakis travelled to in 1926 & 1927. 201p..
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Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece
by Three Initiates
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U.S.A.: Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 1942 Book. As New. Soft cover. Facsimile Reprint.. Fascimile of the edition originally published by A.F.Seward & Co/ The Yogi Publication Society. Chicago,1908. "The Kybalion is divided into seven principles, which are axioms and insights similar to those found in the Book of Proverbs. The principles include mentalism, correspondence, vibration, polarity, rhythm, gender, and cause and affect. Based upon ancient Hermeticism, the book's philosophies became founding pillars within the New Thought movement of the early 1910s. The Kybalion originally published in 1908 under the pseudonym of the Three Initiates, is a book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus. Within The Kybalion is the claim that the book makes its appearance in one's life when the time is appropriate. The Kybalion also claims to have influenced all major religions and philosophies ancient and modern alike. 223p..
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Letters from Egypt: A Journey on the Nile, 1849-1850
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New York: Grove Press, 1988 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. Florence Nightingale was twenty-nine when she visited Egypt in the winter of 1849-50 with her friends Charles and Selina Bracebridge. A journey to the fabled land of the Arabian Nights was a fantastic adventure at that time, and Florence wrote long, picturesque letters to her family describing her visit and her views of the country, its history and its people. These letters were edited and privately printed by her sister, Parthenope, in 1854 and were greatly admired by those who read them, but they have never before been published. Attractive, intelligent and extremely well read, Miss Nightingale was one of the earliest women to make such a journey, and she researched her subject well. Her letters are a fascinating account of life in a country whose greatest asset, its past, had only recently been discovered. They are also a valuable record of a way of life that has now vanished. And they are an extraordinary account into the…
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Once To Sinai: The Further Pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri
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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1957 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. In 1483 Friar Felix Fabri undertook a second pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This book vividly describes his return journey through the deserts of Sinai to St Catherine's Monastery, down the Nile though Egypt to Alexandria and then by ship to Venice and finally to his home monastery in Ulm.310p. illus maps. bibliography. index Text clean, neat and complete except for ffep, Slight shelf wear at head & foot of spine..
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Speaking From the Desert : A Record of the Eighth Army in Africa.
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London: Hutchinson, 1944 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Eyewitness account from BBC radio reporter of the campaign in North Africa, and particularly of the Battle of El Alamein."But this book is more than a war correspondent's log of a campaign. It is a distinguished observer's account of his and the soldiers' personal experiences in the desert, written in that intimate style which Godfrey Talbot gives to his BBC broadcasts." (no date 1943-44?) 153p. Plates (B & W) (Spine slightly scuffed and faded).
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Taxidevontas : Italia, Aigyptos, Sina, Ierusalem, Kypros, Morias
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Athens: Ekdoseis Ethnos, 2014 Book. New Book from Greece. Decorative Hardcover. Reissue.. Re-issue with an introduction by Nikos Mathaioudakis Essays on various places (Italy, Egypt,Sinai, Jerusalem,Cyprus) that Kazantzakis travelled to in 1926 & 1927. 336p. [ see English language editions under the title "Journeying : Travels in Italy,Egypt,Sinai,Jerusalem and Cyprus"].
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Tissus Coptes
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Lausanne: Payot, 1963 Book. Near Fine. French Wraps. First Thus. [ Orbis Pictus series Vol.37.].Small illustrated introduction to Coptic textiles in French 48p. illus (col).
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa
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New York: William Papas, 2005 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st US Ed... "the amazing life of Lady Florence Baker (c. 1845-1916), who made the journey from a Turkish harem to become the wife of an English aristocrat--with whom she made many subsequent journeys to places that included Africa and the source of Nile. " 428p. illus bibliography. index.
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Touring the Ancient World with a Camera
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London: The Studio, 1932 Book. Illus. by Holme, C. Geoffrey (Photographs). Good. Cloth. 1st UK Edition. Issued simultaneously in US by William Edwin Rudge. Vintage B & W photographs of Italy, Greece Istambul (sic) Rhodes, Damascus, Palestine and Egypt. A very interesting visual journey around the eastern Mediterranean - places and people as seen c.1930. viii, 120p. Maps.Yellow cloth binding slightly soiled and splitting along the spine. .
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