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An Alexandria Anthology
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Egypt Travel and Photography
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Haag
HISTORY Middle East Egypt (see also Ancient Egypt)
its shambling elegiac charm and vanished pasts and pleasures
Language_English
LITERARY COLLECTIONS Middle Eastern
Michael
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seen through the eyes of writers and travelers
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The great port city of Alexandria
TRAVEL Middle East Egypt
Travel Writing through the Centuries
Product details
- ISBN 9789774166723
- Weight: 277g
- Dimensions: 120 x 160mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2014
- Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
- Publication City/Country: EG
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Founded by Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago, Alexandria has belonged both to the Mediterranean and to Egypt, a luxuriant out-planting of Europe on the coast of Africa, but also a city of the East - the fabled cosmopolitan town that fascinated travelers, writers, and poets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, where French and Arabic, Italian and Greek were spoken in the cafes and on the streets. In the pages of An Alexandrian Anthology, we follow the delight of travelers discovering the strangeness of the city and its variety and pleasures. Most of all they are haunted by the city's resplendent past - the famous Library, the temple built by Cleopatra for Antony, the great Pharos lighthouse, one of the seven wonders of the world, of which only traces remain - we follow our travelers here too as they voyage through an immense ghost city of the imagination.
Michael Haag is a writer and photographer based in London. He has photographed and written Alexandria Illustrated (AUC Press, 2004) and Cairo Illustrated (AUC Press, 2006), and he is the author of Alexandria: City of Memory and Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City, 1860-1960 (AUC Press, 2008).
