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| Vintage Egypt Cruising The Nile | 
 enlarge | Author: Alain Blottiere
Publisher: Flammarion
Category: Book
Buy New: $99.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1061173
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 216
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.9
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 10.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 2080108883
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9782080108883
ASIN: 2080108883
Publication Date: November 15, 2003
Release Date: November 15, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
A Bugatti at the foot of the Pyramids, a local sailboat transformed into a sumptuous yacht, a few tourists in white suits and Panama hats...these are the images of a voyage in Eygpt under the last kings, Fuad and Farouk, between 1917 and 1952. Writers such as Rudyard Kipling and Andre Gide testify to the fascination of Egypt's "golden years" where-in a country turned towards Europe and "protected" by the British army-a very individual social set blossomed in Cairo and Alexandria.
Fascinating accounts of this universe have been left by both Egyptian writers and visitors to the country. They offer us a rare glimpse of Egypt before the era of mass tourism. Extraordinary period photographs also survive; unearthed in Cairo or Beirut, in museums or private homes, and published here for the first time, they reconstitute the fragile yet effervescent glamour of Egypt under the last kings.
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astonishing ! March 17, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
i love egypt so i read any book written about it but you rarely can find a book like this one . this beautiful photos returns you to the golden era , to the glorious days of twenties and thirties when egypt was ruled by the mohmmed ali royal family . so impressed by it . you will never regret buying this book espesialy arab readers and egyptians .
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