Designed specifically for families with children, this guide provides all families living in Cairo, expatriate and Egyptian alike, with the resources and information needed to explore the city. Organized by geographic area, each section begins with an overview of the area's history and residents. The authors then take readers on a detailed journey to the treasures of each Cairo neighbourhood, with photographs, line drawings, a map that pinpoints sites of interest, and plans of museums and other places of importance.
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55 b&w photographs, 22 line drawings, 24 maps and plans
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Höhe: 203 mm
Breite: 152 mm
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978-977-424-637-1 (9789774246371)
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Author Lesley Lababidi draws on a wealth of knowledge accumulated through her own experience as well as that of her collaborating author, an Egyptologist, and the other contributors, a Khan al-Khalili connoisseur, a bookseller and editor, and a geologist. Lesley Lababid! raised three children in Cairo and is the author of Paddle Your Own Canoe: An American Woman's Passage into Nigeria. Lisa Sabbahy has a PhD in Egyptian archaeology from the University of Toronto and is the author of Ramses II: The Pharaoh and His Time.
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