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An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries
Michael Haag
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Description for An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries
Hardcover. .
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 cafes and on the streets. In the pages of An Alexandrian Anthology, we follow the delight of travelers discovering the strangeness of the city and its variety and pleasures. Most of all they are haunted by ... Read more
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 cafes and on the streets. In the pages of An Alexandrian Anthology, we follow the delight of travelers discovering the strangeness of the city and its variety and pleasures. Most of all they are haunted by ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Cairo, Egypt
ISBN
9789774166723
SKU
V9789774166723
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About Michael Haag
Michael Haag is a writer and photographer based in London. He has photographed and written Alexandria Illustrated (AUC Press, 2004) and Cairo Illustrated (AUC Press, 2006), and he is the author of Alexandria: City of Memory and Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City, 1860-1960 (AUC Press, 2008).
Reviews for An Alexandria Anthology: Travel Writing through the Centuries
"Not a scholarly treatise, An Alexandria Anthology is a small piece of art
a combination of Haag's rich sensibilities of Egyptian history and Ms. Fatiha Bouzidi's exquisite sense of book design. She also designed his Vintage Alexandria (AUC Press, 2008). The two collaborators complement each other beautifully. An Alexandria Anthology is a rare artifact right out of a Ptolemaic tomb."
Bruce Redwine, ... Read more
a combination of Haag's rich sensibilities of Egyptian history and Ms. Fatiha Bouzidi's exquisite sense of book design. She also designed his Vintage Alexandria (AUC Press, 2008). The two collaborators complement each other beautifully. An Alexandria Anthology is a rare artifact right out of a Ptolemaic tomb."
Bruce Redwine, ... Read more