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River in the Desert: A Modern Traveller in Ancient Egypt
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Author
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Paul William Roberts.
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Publisher
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Raincoast
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Format
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paperback
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9
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1.05
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ISBN
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9781551929637
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Pages/Publication Date
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411/2006
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Daedalus Item Code
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21163
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$24.95
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Description
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Egypt is as old as history itself, home to some of the world's greatest treasures, a pantheon of gods and kings, and the roots of the civilized world. Today it is the political and cultural heart of the Arab world and a country of startling contrasts and contradictions. Paul William Roberts, the winner of a PEN Canada Paul Kidd Courage Award for bravery in journalism, gives us ancient and modern Egypt at once in this "smart, energetic, hysterically funny" travelogue (LATimes). In Cairo he spends a terrifying night alone in the central chamber of the Great Pyramid and then is smuggled into the clandestine gathering of a Sufi tariqa. In Nubia he is carried by boat to the great temple of Isis at Philae and reads Death on the Nile while sleeping in Agatha Christie's bedroom.
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