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Traveling through the deserts of Egypt

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Title Traveling through the deserts of Egypt : from 450 B.C. to the twentieth century / edited by Sahar Abdel-Hakim, Deborah Manley
with illustrations by W.H. Bartlett.
Contributors Abdel-Hakim, Sahar
Manley, Deborah
Publisher Cairo
New York : American University in Cairo Press
Creation Date 2009
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-230) and index.
Content The deserts of the imagination and reality -- The Western 'Libyan' Desert -- The Eastern Desert and Sinai Peninsula -- Preparations for the journey -- Starting out -- The desert day -- The desert night -- Nature in the desert -- Experiences of the desert -- The threats of the desert -- The people of the desert -- The return to the world.
Extent xiii, 232 pages : ill
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990027828330205171

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