Cairo Illustrated - Haag, Michael
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Beautifully illustrated with 150 color photographs, this is a fascinating armchair tour of Cairo in all its variety. Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis of eighteen million people that nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world, its alleys, mosques, and caravanserais the original setting for the Arabian Nights, whose atmosphere is palpable still for the visitor wandering through its bazaars, while at sunset the Pyramids glow gold against the Western Desert as they have done for one million seven hundred thousand evenings past. The monuments of pharaohs…mehr

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Beautifully illustrated with 150 color photographs, this is a fascinating armchair tour of Cairo in all its variety. Cairo is an exploding modern metropolis of eighteen million people that nevertheless preserves within its heart the finest medieval city in the world, its alleys, mosques, and caravanserais the original setting for the Arabian Nights, whose atmosphere is palpable still for the visitor wandering through its bazaars, while at sunset the Pyramids glow gold against the Western Desert as they have done for one million seven hundred thousand evenings past. The monuments of pharaohs and sultans lie within the city's reach, making Cairo and its environs an unequaled storehouse of human achievement. In this guide to the largest city in Africa and the political and cultural fulcrum of the Arab world, Michael Haag explores Cairo's past and present in words and pictures.
Autorenporträt
Michael Haag (Author, Photographs by) (1943–2020) was a London-based writer and photographer. He is author and photographer of Alexandria Illustrated  (AUC Press, 2004) and Cairo Illustrated (AUC Press, 2006), and author of  Vintage Alexandria: Photographs of the City, 1860–1960 (AUC Press, 2008) and Alexandria: City of Memory (2004). His other books include The Templar s and The Durrells of Corfu.