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BOOKS & REVIEWS
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Editor: Thomas Rees, The Old Manor House, Bridgewater, Stanwell, Somerset
TA7 9AE; Tel: 00 44 (0) 1278 722190; Fax: 00 44 (0) 1278 723273; E-mail:
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- More Usefully Employed,
Amelia B. Edwards, writer, traveller and campaigner for ancient Egypt
by Dr Brenda Moon, Egypt Exploration Society, London, 2006, h/b xi +
368 pp (inc. appendices) & bibliography, 38 illustrations, ISBN
0-85698-1699, £35 (discount to ASTENE members for orders direct
to the EES.)
Matilda Betham-Edwards, Novelist, Travel Writer and Francophile
by Professor Joan Rees, Hastings Press, Hastings, 2006, p/b 137 pp +
select bibliography and index, ISBN 1-904-109-812, £9.99 (+ £
1.20 post free)
- An Intrepid Scot: William
Lithgow of Lanark's Travels in the Ottoman Lands, North Africa and Central
Asia, 1609-21 by Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Ashgate, 2006,
xxiii + 193 pp., 9 ills., 5 maps, ISBN 0 7546 5708 6, h/b £45.00
- Egyptian Palaces and Villas
by Shirley Johnston with Sherif Sonbol, Abrams, New York, 2006, ISBN
0-8109-5538-5, h/b 174 colour photos, 208 pp. US$50
- A Family in Egypt
by Mary Rowlatt with a foreword by Penelope Lively, Hornbill Press,
New York, 2004, p/b 247 pp + index, illus & photographs, ISBN: 0-9706407-1-4,
£12.00
Out of Egypt, a Memoir by Andre Aciman, Tauris Parke Paperbacks,
London, 2006, p/b 340 pp, ISBN: 10-1 84511 149 4, £10.99
- Syria: A Historical and Architectural
Guide by Warwick Ball. London, Melisende, 2006, 231 pp.
+ maps and illus., appendices and index, ISBN (10) 1 901764 X, ISBN
(13) 97 81907 64 468, p/b £14.95
- Sexual Encounters in the Middle
East, the British, the French and the Arabs by Derek Hopwood,
Ithaca Press, London, 2006, ISBN 13: 978 0 86372 313 1; and 0 86372
313 6, p/b 287 pp + bibliography and index, £19.99
- A Season in Mecca: Narrative
of a Pilgrimage by Abdallah Hammoudi, Polity Press,, Cambridge,
2006, ISBN 10:0 7456 3789 2, ISBN 13: 978 07456 3789 1, p/b 293 pp,
£12.99
- Holding Egypt: tracing the
reception of the Description de l'Egypte in nineteenth century Great
Britain by Andrew Bednarski, Golden House Publications,
London, 2006, ISBN 0 9550256 0 5, p/b 106 pp, £22.00
- River in the Desert: a modern
traveller in ancient Egypt
by P.W. Roberts, London, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 1-84511-181-8,
394 pp. inc. index, £9.99; Journey of the Magi: Travels
in search of the birth of Jesus by P.W. Roberts, London, Tauris
Parke Paperbacks, 1-84511-242-3, 398 pp. inc. index, £9.9
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