An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing Through the Centuries
(Part of the Middle East Travel Anthologies Series)
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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 caf s and on the streets. In the pages of An Alexandria Anthology,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:9774166728
ISBN13:9789774166723
Release Date:January 2015
Publisher:American University in Cairo Press
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 4.9" x 6.5"
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