Francis Bedford was commissioned by Queen Victoria to accompany the future King Edward VII on his tour of the Middle East in spring 1862. This lavishly illustrated & beautifully produced book traces their route through Egypt, Palestine, Turkey & Greece, using Bedfords photographs alongside extracts from the Princes diary & other newly discovered archival material, published here for the first time. In often stifling heat, Bedford produced over 200 negatives, including images of architecture & stunning landscapes, as well as portraits of those he encountered on the tour both local inhabitants & members of the royal party. ...

Cairo in the Wallpaper City Guide series, published by Phaidon & encompassing a collection of pocket-size guides dedicated to the best design elements in major cities. Compiled by experts at the Wallpaper magazine, the guides are widely recognized for appealing to design-conscious travellers & are aimed at those interested in art, design & architecture. Each guide identifies the best bars, restaurants, hotels, places to shop, leisure activities & excursions with a unique emphasis on the finest examples of unusual architecture & design. Each Wallpaper City Guide has the same layout, with separate tabs allowing readers & travellers to access individual sections easily. The tabs consist of Landmarks, Hotels, 24 Hours, Urban Life, Architour, Shopping, Sports & Escapes. High quality colour photographs appear alongside brief descriptions of each hotel, bar or attraction, highlighting distinctive & unusual styles of architecture & design. Extra pages are provided at the back of each guide, allowing readers to record their own notes & sketches. ...

Cairo, Luxor & Aswan in the Cadogan guide series; covering a range of destinations – primarily in Europe
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The famous monuments of Ancient Egypt & of the Nile Delta are magnificently discussed & illustrated in this book. Cairo with its Souks & Bazaars captivate the tourist with the bustle of Africa`s Busiest City. The Pyramids of Giza are one of the 7 wonders of the Ancient World
- together with the Sphinx. They are still a wonder to any traveller who sees them, especially for the first time. Sakkarah & Memphis with the older step pyramids continue to evoke wonder in their setting in the desert.
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From its earliest days as a royal settlement fronting the pyramids of Giza to its current manifestation as the largest metropolis in Africa, Cairo has forever captured the urban pulse of the Middle East. In Cairo: Histories of a City, Nezar Al Sayyad narrates the many Cairos that have existed throughout time, offering a panoramic view of the city`s history unmatched in temporal & geographic scope, through an in-depth examination of its architecture & urban form. In twelve vignettes, accompanied by drawings, photographs, & maps, Al Sayyad details the shifts in Cairo`s built environment through stories of important figures who marked the cityscape with their personal ambitions & their political ideologies. The city is visually reconstructed & brought to life not only as a physical fabric but also as a social & political order--a city built within, upon, & over, resulting in a present-day richly layered urban environment. Each chapter attempts to capture a defining moment in the life trajectory of a city loved for all of its evocations & contradictions. Throughout, Al Sayyad illuminates not only the spaces that make up Cairo but also the figures that shaped them, including its chroniclers, from Herodotus to Mahfouz, who recorded the deeds of great & ordinary Cairenes alike. He pays particular attention to how the imperatives of Egypt`s various rulers & regimes--from the pharaohs to Sadat & beyond--have inscribed themselves in the city that residents navigate today. ...

Over the past few months I have delivered lectures, presentations & interviews on the Egyptian Revolution. I have had overflowing houses everywhere, been stopped by old ladies in the street & had my hand shaken by numerous taxi drivers & shopkeepers. & all because I'm Egyptian & the glitter of Tahrir is upon me. They wanted me to talk to them, to tell them stories about it, to tell them how, on the 28th of January when we took the Square & The People torched the headquarters of the hated ruling National Democratic Party, The (same) People formed a human chain to protect the Antiquities Museum & demanded an official handover to the military; to tell them how, on Wednesday, February 2nd, as The People defended themselves against the invading thug militias & fought pitched battles at the entrance to the Square in the shadow of the Antiquities Museum, The (same) People at the centre of the square debated political structures & laughed at st&-up comics & distributed sandwiches & water; to tell them of the chants & the poetry & the songs, of how we danced & waved at the F16s that our President flew over us. People everywhere want to make this Revolution their own, & we in Egypt want to share it. Ahdaf Soueif
- novelist, commentator, activist
- navigates her history of Cairo & her journey through the Revolution that's redrawing its future. Through a map of stories drawn from private history & public record Soueif charts a story of the Revolution that is both intimately hers & publicly Egyptian. Ahdaf Soueif was born & brought up in Cairo. When the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 erupted on January 25th, she, along with thousands of others, called Tahrir Square home for eighteen days. She reported for the world's media & did
- like everyone else
- whatever she could.



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Sutherland & Caithness are the most northerly parts of mainland Britain. Northwest Sutherland is a stunning landscape of perfect ...

One of the titles in a series of maps of the administrative departments of Peru, with topography shown by altitude colouring & spot heights. Most maps also indicate cultivated areas. Scales vary considerably, given different sizes of the departments. Railways & four different types of roads & dirt tracks are shown, as well as local airports & aerodromes. The maps also show the subdivisions of the departments into provinces & districts, indicating administrative capital of each unit. Most sheets also include a panel with general information about the state (e.g. population distribution, climate, etc.). Latitude & longitude grid is drawn at 1º intervals, making this series very useful for identifying the locations of small places on the 1:100, 000 topographic survey of the country. Map legend is in Spanish only. Publication dates vary from mid-1980s to mid-1990s, with a handful of titles revised later. Each map shows one department only & no detail of any kind is given for the adjacent departments, beyond their names. ...

One of the maps in the topographic survey of Peru from the country’s national survey organization, Instituto Geográfico Nacional. Contours are at 25m intervals & colouring/symbols indicate different types of terrain & vegetation. Some of the maps may contain small blank spaces representing as yet unmapped areas. Each sheet covers 30’ latitude by 30’ longitude. The maps have a 1km UTM grid & margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1’. Publication dates vary; most maps were published in 1960s to 1990s, with some sheets revised more recently. Map legend is in Spanish only, except in the more recent editions which also include English. ...

Topographic survey of France at 1:25, 000 in IGN`s excellent TOP25 / Série Bleue series. All the maps are GPS compatible, with a 1km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude lines at 5’ intervals. Contours are at 5m intervals except for mountainous areas where the maps have contours at 10m intervals, vividly enhanced by hill shading & graphics for rocky terrain. Colouring with graphics indicates different types of vegetation or land use (deciduous or coniferous forests, moors, orchards, vineyards, etc). PLEASE NOTE: coverage of France at this scale is currently being revised – the format & the presentation of each title are indicated by the letters at the end of its Sheet Reference number (e.g. 0416ET, 3531ETR, 1923SB, etc.)MAPS WITH FULL TOURIST OVERPRINT & AN ENGLISH MAP LEGEND: all TOP25 maps & the SB editions of Série Bleue have an overprint highlighting waymarked walking trails including long-distance GR routes &, where appropriate, ski routes. Symbols indicate campsites, gîtes d’etape, refuges, equestrian centres & other recreational facilities or sites, tourist information centres, cultural heritage, etc. Towns & locations of particular interest are highlighted.- ET or OT = single-sided TOP25 map covering approx. 29x 21 km / 18x 13 miles.- ETR or OTR = waterproof & tear resistant TOP25 map covering the same area as the corresponding ET or OT number, but double-sided, printed on a smaller size sheet with a good overlap between the sides.- SB = Série Bleue map with full tourist overprint; these maps, first introduced in summer 2014, each cover approx. 29x 24km / 18x 15 miles.SÉRIE BLEUE maps with numbers ending in E (Est) or O (Ouest): most editions now indicate the GR routes, but do not show any other tourist information. Map legend is in French only. Each map covers approx. 14x 20km / 9x 12 miles. ...