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Egypt: From Prehistory to the Romans
The architecture of the pharaohs represents some of the most impressive creative work ever produced in Egyptian art and yet it has never been completely assessed. This volume is a...
Mummies, Myth and Magic in Anc.Egypt
Describes the origins and purpose of mummification, clears up misconceptions about mummies, and looks at recent scientific studies.
Passenger to Tehran
$30.00 AUD
In the spring of 1926, the writer Vita Sackville-West travelled to Persia to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was at the British Legation. Her journey took her through Egypt,...
Egypt of the Pharaohs: An Introduction
The mysteries of Ancient Egypt, the wonderland of the Pharaohs, have always held the world in awe. Now available in new covers, this volume provides a comprehensive history of this...
Egypt
$15.00 AUD
Relax, take a coffee-table trip back into ancient history. Unlike the sweating, impatient tourist who wants to do the pyramids and the sphinx in order to catch the next plane...
The Angel Deception (Joe Mason, Book 6)
The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to stop a ruthless satanic group...
Alamein
$100.00 AUD
In North Africa in 1942, Australian forces provided the hinge on which the success of the Western Alliance sung. This book relates how the 9th Australian Division came to take...
The Traitor's Gold (Joe Mason, Book 5)
The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series At the root of all riches lies evil... Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on...
Lonely Planet Egyptian Arabic Phrasebook
Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Egyptian Arabic is a complex language that has evolved over centuries. With this guide to Egyptian Arabic you'll know your classical from...
The Rape of Tutankhamun
The book titled The Rape of Tutankhamun by the author John Romer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Babylon Plot (Joe Mason, Book 4)
At the root of all riches lies evil... Can he uncover their deadly conspiracy before they find him first? When ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason gets a call from the Vatican,...
David Roberts: Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land
Mancoff (writer, curator and lecturer) presents six essays and 64 color reproductions of Roberts' paintings that focus on scenes from an arduous 1838 trip made to the Near East. With...
House of Two Pharaohs: Step into the world of gold, gods and deadly
FROM THE SHADOWS. A NEW EVIL WILL RISE. FACELESS. NAMELESS. Since his appointment as Nomarch of Memphis, by the God-Pharaoh Rameses, Piay has thrown himself into pulling the city back...
We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab
'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The...
Egypt After the Pharaohs
The 1000 years between Alexander the Great's invasion in 332 BC and the Arab conquest in AD 642 was a period of enormous change in the history of Egypt. The...
Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art
$60.00 AUD
The wall paintings and reliefs of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record a continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems...
Islamic Monuments in Cairo: A Practical Guide
Cairo's Islamic monuments are part of an interrupted tradition that spans over a thousand years of building activity. No other Islamic city can equal Cairo's sperctacular heritage, nor trace its...
The Monuments of Historic Cairo: A Map and Descriptive Catalogue
$240.00 AUD
Comprising thirty-one maps at a metric scale of 1:1,250 and a descriptive catalogue, The Monuments of Historic Cairo marks the first time that the city's significant architectural heritage has been...
Cairo
The fabled city on the banks of the River Nile, once home to pharaohs and emperors, now forms a focal point of the Islamic faith and of the Arab world....
Moon Egypt (First Edition)
From the breathtaking traces of the ancient world to the colorful corals of the Red Sea, experience a land of treasures with Moon Egypt . Inside you'll find: * Strategic,...
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler
Cairo, 1942: If you had asked a British officer who Colonel Clarke was, they would have been able to point him out: always ready with a drink and a story,...
Cairo: City of Sand
Cairo is a 1400-year-old desert oasis occupied by nearly 16 million people whose lives are shaped and coloured by its proximity to the Nile, and where the pressures of life...
Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the
A poignant, deeply human portrait of Egypt during the Arab Spring, told through the lives of individuals 'Sweeping, passionate ... An essential work of reportage for our time' Philip Gourevitch,...
Cairo: A Cultural History
Foreword by Penelope Lively Cairo is a city of extremes. On its chaotic streets BMWs driven by sharp-suited businessmen compete for space with donkey carts laden with farm produce. In...
Red Nile: A Biography of the World's Greatest River
$20.00 AUD
From religion, to language, to the stories rooted in our faith and history books, the Nile River has proven to be a constant fixture in mankind's tales. In this dazzling,...
The Traitor's Gold (Joe Mason, Book 5)
The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series At the root of all riches lies evil... Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on...
Discovering Ancient Egypt
This is a history of Ancient Egypt which looks at the history of the great civilization through the achievements of the travellers, archaeologists and Egyptologists whose discoveries opened the world's...
Alexandria: The City that Changed the World: 'Monumental' - Daily
A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Fascinating and important' Natalie Haynes, author of Stone Blind 'Monumental and vividly imagined' Daily Telegraph 'Wonderfully entertaining' Sunday Times 'Lively and...
What the River Knows: the addictive and endlessly romantic historical
A divine exploration. A deadly secret. A desire she can't escape. In the glittering society of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, Inez Olivera has everything, except the one thing she really wants:...
The Medieval Nile: Route, Navigation, and Landscape in Islamic Egypt
This ground-breaking view of the navigational landscape of the Nile in medieval Egypt draws on a broad range of sources: medieval Arabic geographies; traveler accounts; archaeology; and meteorological, hydrological, and...
The Mingrelian Conspiracy
A classic historical mystery from the award-winning Michael Pearce, set in the Egypt of the 1900s. When gang violence strikes the city, the inimitable Mamur Zapt is called in to...
El Alamein, 1942
El Alamein, July to November 1942 explores one of the Second World War's most pivotal battles, focusing on the crucial role of the 9th Australian Division. This book examines how...
Egyptian Food and Drink
The two staples of ancient Egyptian life were bread and beer, both products of the abundant grain hartest of the fertile Nile valley. Bread was so important that over forty...
In a Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan
These places are among the most beautiful on earth - the deserts of the Middle East, the Dead Sea coast, the ancient splendor of Luxor, the pyramids at Giza, and...
The Mummy, The
The Mummy follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age to the present day, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture, films and literature,...
The Angel Deception (Joe Mason, Book 6)
The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to stop a ruthless satanic group...
The Angel Deception (Joe Mason, Book 6)
The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on a mission to stop a ruthless satanic group...
Art and History of Egypt
Discover Egypt's rich history, monument and artwork with this beautiful volume. Its detailed texts and superb historical and artistic illustrations and maps provide an overview of the fascinating masterpieces of...
The Search for Cleopatra
$12.00 AUD
Cleopatra is wreathed by so many outsized myths that it is sometimes difficult to tell the woman from the legend. For centuries, historians have scarcely deviated from the occidental, Horatian...
House of Two Pharaohs: Step into the world of gold, gods and deadly
FROM THE SHADOWS. A NEW EVIL WILL RISE. FACELESS. NAMELESS. Since his appointment as Nomarch of Memphis, by the God-Pharaoh Rameses, Piay has thrown himself into pulling the city back...
The Babylon Plot (Joe Mason, Book 4)
At the root of all riches lies evil... Can he uncover their deadly conspiracy before they find him first? When ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason gets a call from the Vatican,...
Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Records of the Rulers
Other work by the author includes "Rediscovery of Ancient Egypt".
Cairo: The City Victorious
Every great city deserves a book like this one: a sweeping chronicle by an author whose motives mix passion and bewilderment. Over the course of four and a half millennia,...
Nephthys
A captivating treasure of a novel about Clemmie, a young Victorian Egyptologist, and her entanglement with the legend of the goddess, Nephthys. 'Brilliant... I loved it.' Santa Montefiore SISTER. RIVAL....
We Are Your Soldiers: How Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser Remade the Arab
'A gripping account. Essential reading to understand the roots of the 2011 Arab Spring and the conflicts that have devastated so much of the region' EUGENE ROGAN, author of The...
The Traitor's Gold (Joe Mason, Book 5)
The gripping new action thriller novel from the million-copy bestselling author of the Matt Drake series At the root of all riches lies evil... Ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is on...