Author: William Golding
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571265499
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A first-hand journal about the Goldings' travels through Egypt, soon after winning the Nobel Prize, living on a motor cruiser on the Nile. Nothing went quite as planned, but William Golding's vivid and honest account of what actually happened, and of what he saw and felt about ancient Egypt and the exasperations of the living present, will delight his innumerable admirers and everyone who visits Egypt.'One of the funniest anti-travel books I have ever read.' Daily Telegraph'No previous book brings you so close to Golding the man. It bulges with abstruse knowledge . . . and is often screamingly funny . . . Hugely enjoyable.' The Times
An Egyptian Journal
Author: William Golding
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571265499
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A first-hand journal about the Goldings' travels through Egypt, soon after winning the Nobel Prize, living on a motor cruiser on the Nile. Nothing went quite as planned, but William Golding's vivid and honest account of what actually happened, and of what he saw and felt about ancient Egypt and the exasperations of the living present, will delight his innumerable admirers and everyone who visits Egypt.'One of the funniest anti-travel books I have ever read.' Daily Telegraph'No previous book brings you so close to Golding the man. It bulges with abstruse knowledge . . . and is often screamingly funny . . . Hugely enjoyable.' The Times
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571265499
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
A first-hand journal about the Goldings' travels through Egypt, soon after winning the Nobel Prize, living on a motor cruiser on the Nile. Nothing went quite as planned, but William Golding's vivid and honest account of what actually happened, and of what he saw and felt about ancient Egypt and the exasperations of the living present, will delight his innumerable admirers and everyone who visits Egypt.'One of the funniest anti-travel books I have ever read.' Daily Telegraph'No previous book brings you so close to Golding the man. It bulges with abstruse knowledge . . . and is often screamingly funny . . . Hugely enjoyable.' The Times
The British Museum
Author: British Museum
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 9781782438069
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This beautifully designed full-colour journal, featuring stunning images from the British Museum archives, is one that will be coveted by all ages. Focusing on the Ancient Egyptian collection, the journal has softly lined pages and, along with full-page images of artefacts from the collection, also contains decorative details throughout.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 9781782438069
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
This beautifully designed full-colour journal, featuring stunning images from the British Museum archives, is one that will be coveted by all ages. Focusing on the Ancient Egyptian collection, the journal has softly lined pages and, along with full-page images of artefacts from the collection, also contains decorative details throughout.
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
Author: Noor Naga
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Shortlisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants “returning” to a country she’s never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire—for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other—takes a violent turn that neither of them expected. A dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Naga’s experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved . . . and vice versa. In our globalized twenty-first-century world, what are the new faces (and races) of empire? When the revolution fails, how long can someone survive the disappointment? Who suffers and, more crucially, who gets to tell about it?
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1644451719
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2023 Arab American Book Award for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Shortlisted for the 2022 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire. In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants “returning” to a country she’s never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire—for one another, for the selves they want to become through the other—takes a violent turn that neither of them expected. A dark romance exposing the gaps in American identity politics, especially when exported overseas, If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English is at once ravishing and wry, scathing and tender. Told in alternating perspectives, Noor Naga’s experimental debut examines the ethics of fetishizing the homeland and punishing the beloved . . . and vice versa. In our globalized twenty-first-century world, what are the new faces (and races) of empire? When the revolution fails, how long can someone survive the disappointment? Who suffers and, more crucially, who gets to tell about it?
Everyday Life in Ancient Egypt
Author: Lionel Casson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Originally published in 1975 as The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, this revised edition includes a new chapter as well as full documentation of the sources.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801866012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Originally published in 1975 as The Horizon Book of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt, this revised edition includes a new chapter as well as full documentation of the sources.
Egypt Land
Author: Scott Trafton
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822333623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
DIVExplores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture, literature, and science, and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers./div
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822333623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
DIVExplores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture, literature, and science, and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers./div
The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways
Author: Leonard H. Lesko
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520316924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520316924
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Author: Eva Von Dassow
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811864893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Reissue of the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani, the most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered, restored in its original sequences of text and artwork.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811864893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Reissue of the legendary 3,500-year-old Papyrus of Ani, the most beautiful of the ornately illustrated Egyptian funerary scrolls ever discovered, restored in its original sequences of text and artwork.
Life in an Egyptian Village in Late Antiquity
Author: Giovanni Ruffini
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107105609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The most detailed glimpse to date of daily life in a small town at the end of the Roman Empire.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107105609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The most detailed glimpse to date of daily life in a small town at the end of the Roman Empire.
Roman Diary
Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763678244
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
"Like Platt’s previous ‘diaries’ about castles, pirates, and ancient Egypt, this offers an accessible introduction to history." — Booklist Iliona never imagined that her sea voyage from Greece to Egypt would lead to Rome, but when she is captured by pirates and auctioned off as a slave, that’s where she lands. Readers are invited to view the wonders of Rome through Iliona’s eyes—the luxury, the excess, and the politics. Back matter includes notes for the reader, a glossary, and sources.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763678244
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
"Like Platt’s previous ‘diaries’ about castles, pirates, and ancient Egypt, this offers an accessible introduction to history." — Booklist Iliona never imagined that her sea voyage from Greece to Egypt would lead to Rome, but when she is captured by pirates and auctioned off as a slave, that’s where she lands. Readers are invited to view the wonders of Rome through Iliona’s eyes—the luxury, the excess, and the politics. Back matter includes notes for the reader, a glossary, and sources.
Egyptian Diary
Author: Richard Platt
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 076367849X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
"A fresh, lively voice. . . . Replete with details of daily life." — Kirkus Reviews The year is 1464 BC, and Nakht’s family is moving to the city of Memphis. Nakht, who is studying to be a scribe, keeps a journal of the many sights and sounds of the bustling city — temples and pyramids, cargo ships, a hippopotamus hunt, even a tomb robbery. Presented as a lively diary, here is an invitation for readers to witness firsthand what life was like for one boy in Egypt 3,500 years ago.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 076367849X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
"A fresh, lively voice. . . . Replete with details of daily life." — Kirkus Reviews The year is 1464 BC, and Nakht’s family is moving to the city of Memphis. Nakht, who is studying to be a scribe, keeps a journal of the many sights and sounds of the bustling city — temples and pyramids, cargo ships, a hippopotamus hunt, even a tomb robbery. Presented as a lively diary, here is an invitation for readers to witness firsthand what life was like for one boy in Egypt 3,500 years ago.